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Sigmund Freud
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety
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Sigmund Freud
Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love
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Edmund Burke
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security
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Abraham Lincoln
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read
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Plato
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety
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Joseph Addison
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure
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Bernard Shaw
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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