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• Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Falling In Love, Knowing, People

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.177, Bantam

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• Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic.

  Lee Westwood

  Winning, Majors

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• One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Life, Player, Games

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• When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free

  Tim Cahill

  Children, Heart, Hands

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• The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Running, Hunting, Woods

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.54

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• When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Prayer, Stress

  Rick Warren (2008). “God's Power to Change Your Life”, p.35, Zondervan

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• There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

  Don DeLillo

  Lonely, Effort, Anxiety

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Ratner's Star”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

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• As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

  Robin Gibb

  Anger, Feelings, Despair

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!

  Calvin Trillin

  People, Finals, Sitting

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• In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

  Nick Clooney

  Class, Wiping Out, Saving

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• It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great . This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

  Linda Lavin

  Dream, Quiet People, Piano

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• A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Hurt, Opportunity, Storm

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

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