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"Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle."
"So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily."
"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."
"I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern."
"One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted."
"Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death."
"I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
"Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God."
"To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance."
"The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes."
"An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand."
"Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see."
"Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking."
"From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?"
"There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease."
"I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year."
"Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared."
"...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error."
"I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin."
"The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact."
