"One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations."
"Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar."
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Source: Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
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