"In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand."
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"Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death."
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"To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics."
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"One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one."
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"Fear is cruel and mean."
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"All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear."
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"They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear."
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"Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil."
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"Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt."
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"When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair."
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"The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything"
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"I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy."
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"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."
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"Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer."
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"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."
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"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand."
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"Passionately obsessed by anything we love - an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love."
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"Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it."
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"You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots."
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"Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate."
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