Our fear of disaster

Our fear of disaster
Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur
  

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Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.
Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.
Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.
Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.
Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.