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Robert Smith (musician) (1959) English singer, songwriter and musician
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“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
As quoted in Dictionary of Thoughts (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 22.
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Variant: Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
John Perry Barlow (1947–2018) American poet and essayist
John Perry Barlow 2.0 (2004)
Context: It’s a perfect set of circumstances to give us the time Yeats foretold, with the best having lost all conviction and the worst full of passionate intensity. I’m an optimist. In order to be libertarian, you have to be an optimist. You have to have a benign view of human nature, to believe that human beings left to their own devices are basically good. But I’m not so sure about human institutions, and I think the real point of argument here is whether or not large corporations are human institutions or some other entity we need to be thinking about curtailing. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government.
