"Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself."
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"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."
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"Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle."
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"All forms of fear produce fatigue."
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"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen."
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"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
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"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
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"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
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"What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."
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"One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again."
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"Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further."
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"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
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"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
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"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
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"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
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"Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything."
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"Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic."
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"Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next."
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"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."
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"A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions."
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