"I tend to scare myself."
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"Make YOUR can larger than YOUR can't, and YOUR DREAMS bigger than YOUR doubts"
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"Once you slay one fear, you can conquer many fears."
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"It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust."
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"Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind."
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"Fear is the fatal killer of desire."
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"Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom."
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"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another."
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"The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty."
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"I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom."
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"It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident."
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"Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!"
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"Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to."
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"The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same."
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"War is war. The only good human being is a dead one."
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"If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists."
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"One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid."
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"See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ."
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"For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured-disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui-in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable."
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"Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now."
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