"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
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"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."
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"Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?"
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"A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke."
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"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
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"For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him."
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"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
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"Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness."
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"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear."
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"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying."
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"Cruelty and fear shake hands together."
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"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."
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"It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks."
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear."
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"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
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"Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure."
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"To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity."
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"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."
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"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
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"Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate."
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