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"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters."
"Who would you be without the thought "I need more money to be safe?" You might be a lot easier to be with. You might even begin to notice the laws of generosity, the laws of letting money go out fearlessly and come back fearlessly. You don't ever need more money than you have."
"All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field."
"Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty."
"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."
"I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's."
"Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world."
"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."
"But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly."
"A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
"I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas."
"I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening."
"Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear."
"Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts."
"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."
"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character."
"Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears."
"Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives."
"Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
