"Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about."
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"When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come."
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"Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away."
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"Rose goblins are built like porcupines - if you rub them the right way, you don't have to worry about the spines. They're sort of like people in that regard, too."
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"To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!"
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"Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose"
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"Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it."
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"In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from."
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"I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive."
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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
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"Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along."
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"The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It's the assets you have to worry about."
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"Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive."
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"A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable."
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"I can't worry about match too much. There's nothing I can do."
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"I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this."
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"We tend to harp on little things, or worry about something, when, really, it's just not that important. If you have a roof over your head, and you're healthy, and your family is healthy, that's all that matters. Don't let the little things get you down."
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"I don't worry cause, everything's gonna be alright."
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"You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else."
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"I'm too busy. I have no time for worry."
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