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O golden Silence, bid our souls be still,And on the foolish fretting of our careLay thy soft touch of healing unaware!
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Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

Isaac Rosenberg

— 1917  'Dead Man's Dump'.

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Fretting grief the enemy of life.

Edmund Spenser

— 1590  The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 4, stanza 35.

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Fretting about a dearth of randomness seems like worrying that humanity might use up its last reserves of ignorance.

brian hayes

— Chapter 2, Random Resources, p. 23

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Fretting about a dearth of randomness seems like worrying that humanity might use up its last reserves of ignorance.


— Brian Hayes (scientist), Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 2, Random Resources, p. 23

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Fretting about a dearth of randomness seems like worrying that humanity might use up its last reserves of ignorance.


— Brian Hayes (scientist), Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 2, Random Resources, p. 23

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O golden Silence, bid our souls be still, And on the foolish Fretting of our care Lay thy soft touch of healing unaware!


— Silence, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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"the reason no one has yet been able to come up with a good word to describe the homosexualist (sometimes known as gay, fag, queer, etc.) is because he does not exist. The human race is divided into male and female. Many human beings enjoy the sexual relations with their own sex, many don't; many respond to both. The plurality is the fact of our nature and not worth Fretting about."


— Gore Vidal

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There is nothing so Fretting and vexatious , nothing so justly TERRIBLE to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a FREE PRESS.


— Samuel Adams, (Boston Gazette, 1768) — cited in: Emord, Jonathan W. (1991). Freedom, Technology, and the First Amendment. Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy. p. 61. 

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