"Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists."
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"I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."
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""Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.""
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"The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power - a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned."
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"Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused."
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"Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable."
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"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained."
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"It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls."
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"Hit the delete button every time fear appears."
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"Fear betrays unworthy souls."
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"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned."
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"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."
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"His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin."
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"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."
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"We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."
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"Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed."
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"People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness."
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do."
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"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate."
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"Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
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