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If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen

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Origin of: If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen

Meaning that if you cannot withstand the pressure or the pace, you should not be in the race, was coined by US President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) c. 1950.