"It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase."
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"Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something."
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"The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear."
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"Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety."
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"Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing."
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"South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor."
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"Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making."
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"True nobility is exempt from fear."
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"Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school."
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"The most anxious man in a prison is the governor."
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"What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared."
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"Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape."
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"His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked."
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"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion."
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"Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting."
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"Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry"
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"Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you."
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"An hour of anxiety cannot change my circumstances, but a minute of prayer can alter everything."
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"It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable."
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"No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others."
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