Joseph McCarthy
Politician
"Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity."
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Antonin Scalia
Judge
"Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world."
Antonin Scalia
Judge
"One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned."
Jacques Derrida
Philosopher, Linguist
"Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts."
Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
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"God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them."
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"God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms."
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"This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary."
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"The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright."
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"I love you," I say. I said that once, before I went to Erudite headquarters, but he was asleep then. I don't know why I didn't say it when he could hear it. Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion. Or afraid that I did not know what it was to love someone. But now I think the scary thing was not saying it before it was too late. Not saying it before it was almost too late for me."
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"When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth."
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"Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?"
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"The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary."
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"On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it's a good idea."
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"To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred."
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"You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed."
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"Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret."
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"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."
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"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."
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"What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!"
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"Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff."
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"Most ideas are a bit scary, and if an idea isn't scary, it's not an idea at all."
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"Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there’s a huge possibility you’ll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn’t that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don’t you find that scary?"
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"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man."
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"Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does."
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