"The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you."
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"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."
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"What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant."
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"Do not fear mistakes."
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"Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear."
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"If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return."
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"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."
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"In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land."
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"Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing."
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"Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known."
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""Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged.""
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"The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear."
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"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble."
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"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."
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"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
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"A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free."
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"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
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"I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself."
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"Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before."
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"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?"
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