"When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations."

-- Al Jaffee

#Anxiety Quotes #Insecurity Quotes #Independence Quotes

“I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.”

Source : "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.
“Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.”
“The abuser knows where you work. Even if a woman goes underground at night, the abuser knows where to find her during the day.”
“So, I travel a lot. I hate traveling, mostly 'cause my dad used to beat me with a globe.”

Source : "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, February 4, 2003.
“The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.”
“There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.”

Source : "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton, 1947.
“"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.”
“All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.”

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