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I'm a total crybaby, and high levels of stress can cause me to run into the bathroom for a few minutes and just let it all out. Sometimes others don't understand that, and think I can't handle stress, or that I'm immature, or incapable. But there are just people for whom crying is a response to any strong emotion -- happiness, sadness, and anything in between. So if someone cried at work because their huge project was doomed and their job was on the line, I would be sympathetic.
People who cry at work because they can't handle learning software or something? It's a little difficult not to fee patronized by that behaviour.
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The word "time" split its husk; poured its riches over him; and from his lips fell like shells, like shavings from a plane, without his making them, hard, white, imperishable words, and flew to attach themselves to their places in an ode to Time; an immortal ode to Time.
—Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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