I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.
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I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ... JON JOHANSEN I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w... JON ANDERSON Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ... JON FOREMAN I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libr... JON FELTHEIMER I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in ... JON KRAKAUER Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did. JON LOVITZ The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all ... JON ORINGER Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family... JON KATZ