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- Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- Neurotics chase after people and jobs they don't really want, just to prove that they are like everybody else - which is the last thing they really want.
- Author Unknown
- Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.
- Author Unknown
- It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.
- Author Unknown
- People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
- John Jay Chapman
- Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.
- Author Unknown
- When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
- Author Unknown
- Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
- Noah Webster
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