"I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science."
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"Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment."
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"Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities."
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"A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!"
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"It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists."
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"Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality."
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"We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it."
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"Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters."
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"The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires."
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"He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies"
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"Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it."
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"If I live by illusions, you live by excuses."
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"since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid"
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"I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life."
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"I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer."
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"Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear."
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"Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection."
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"There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet."
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"God is good, there is no devil but fear."
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"We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established."
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