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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.