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Salvador Dali Artist, Surrealist
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"I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed."

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Tracy Pollan Actress
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"Worrying won't prevent the worst outcome. I've learned to live in the moment, which is not my natural tendency. I've always thought that if I worried about something enough, it wouldn't happen. I forgot to worry about Parkinson's."

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Simon Hughes Politician
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"It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade."

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
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"Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings - how you feel, what you think, what you do... You are responsible."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
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"And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!"

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Worry is a state of mind based upon fear. It works slowly, but persistently. It is insidious and subtle. Step by step it “digs itself in” until it paralyzes ones reasoning faculty, destroys self-confidence and initiative. Worry is a form of sustained fear caused by indecision therefore it is a state of mind which can be controlled."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back."

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"My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time."

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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry."

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