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• Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.

  W. Graham Scroggie

  Energy, May, Form

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• If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

  Peter Gallagher

  Over You, Feelings, Strange

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• Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

  Robert Burns

  'To a Mouse' (1786)

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• I forgot my watch. Minutes or hours later, when the panic subsides, that is what I most regret. Not coming here in the first place - that seemed like an obvious choice - but my bare wrist, which makes it impossible for me to know how long I have been sitting in this room. My back aches, which is some indication, but it is not definite enough.

  Veronica Roth

  Regret, Long, Choices

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• Make no mistake, the Republican establishment has been relying on the media to be a premier agent in destroying Trump. And they can't. Ergo, there's panic.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mistake, Media, Agents

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think it helps to have a good old-fashioned trajectory, plodding along. Obviously one has an ego and it's really easy to have that ego tickled, but what helps me get through the night is if I concentrate on just quality of work so that I don't panic about my profile.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Night, Thinking, Ego

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• Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Making Money, Mutual Fund

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well.

  Julie Andrews

  Wells, Ifs

  "Legendary actress Julie Andrews turns the page". Interview with Joy Sewing, www.chron.com. June 6, 2012.

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• A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Feet, People

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.184, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There's no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when your hand or head is stuck in something.

  Peter Kay

  Hands, Stuck, Feels

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• Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

  Nelson DeMille

  Anxiety, Abiding, Floating

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• Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

  Janet Fitch

  Despair, Possibility, Worst

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.

  Tom McClintock

  Government, Damage, Financial

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• Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.

  Shekhar Kapur

  Motivation, Inspiration, Creativity

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• Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Hurt, Men, Light

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.12

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• She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold – I wanted my life to start – but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Secret, Events, Mouths

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.

  Abby Sunderland

  Trying, Soda, Situation

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.160, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars
  I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars

  Lil Wayne

  Depression, Stars, Xanax

  Song: I Feel Like Dying, Album: THE DROUGHT IS OVER PT.2 (CARTER 3 SESSIONS MIXTAPE)

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• When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

  Paul Krugman

  Fall, Momentum, Investing

  "Reckonings; Goldilocks And the Bears". www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2000.

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• Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Depression, Grief

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• Sometimes you panic and find yourself emitting remarks so profoundly inane that you would be embarrassed to say them to your dog. Your dog would look at you and think to itself, 'I may lick myself in public, but I'd never say anything as stupid as that.'

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Stupid, Thinking

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• What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

  Umberto Eco

  Elderly, Honor, Action

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Blind, Reason, Enough

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• Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.

  John Hodgman

  Real, Creative, Found

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• I have terrible panic attacks. I usually get so tired from crying and being in pain that my only way out is sleeping.

  Soko

  Pain, Tired, Sleep

  "Sleeping, Dreaming and Making Art: Soko Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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