"When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way down the street toward our house does not cause worry it causes running. Also we don't usually choose imminent events as subjects for our worrying and thus emerges an ironic truth: Often the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen."

Source : Gavin De Becker (1999). “Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)”, Doubleday

Gavin de Becker

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“I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men's bathrooms. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me.”

Source : "Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman Costume Is Still Badass" by Dana Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2013.
“Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.”
“Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.”
“Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?”

Source : "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.
“I believe that also it should be stressed and made clear that our antagonistic position is not to say "I don't like whites" for the simple fact of not liking white people. It's like, our fight is not against the white person per se, but against the exercises of white supremacy and the form in which whiteness and the politics of whiteness operates.”
“I try to listen to people, coaches and other pitchers, and see what they do and how they try to do it. Then I try to find a way that's comfortable for me.”
“I had never worked in that environment where you're able to play.”

Source : "Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer Talk FRANKLIN & BASH, the Guest Stars in Season 2, and Hopes for a Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 27, 2012.
“Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, ...beer is good enough for me.”

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