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"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject."
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"Then the dwarves forgot their joy and their confident boasts of a moment before and cowered down in fright. Smaug was still to be reckoned with. It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
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"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."
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"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."
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"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."
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"A monster's worst fear is of being found."
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"It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth."
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"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
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"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."
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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
Happiness
"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."
Thought
"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
Achievement
"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
Friendship
"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
Hope
"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
Man
"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
Friendship
"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."
Technology
"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
Experience
"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
Man
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