"Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror."
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"Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it."
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"Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not."
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"It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors."
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"Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer."
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"That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed."
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"Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us."
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"But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror."
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"The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror"
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"I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror."
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"Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner."
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"The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic."
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"The best part of living in constant terror is you always have a place to live."
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"If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not about his life."
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"We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear."
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"Terror breeds terror. I am completely opposed to both state terror and those who respond in a similar way. There is no justification for any group that associates itself with the Left to kill innocents and encourage suicide bombings."
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"Joy is the reflex of terror."
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"The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment."
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"Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking."
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"I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?"
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