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"As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason."
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"See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back."
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"Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it."
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"To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?"
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"Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself."
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"The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear."
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"People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike."
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"I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father."
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"Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst."
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"Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times."
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"It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone."
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"When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction."
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"Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself."
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"But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?"
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"Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator."
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"Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood."
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"When you run in fear, it's square into the wall."
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"She lived in fear of ifonic endings."
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"Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly."
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