#tension

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

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#achieve #children #having #having children #her

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

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#brings #courage #energies #highest #human

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! ↗

— Manuel Puig

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#create #hard #her #his #language