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"I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy."
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"The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification."
Science
"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
Knowledge
"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
Business
"Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth."
Time
"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
Men
"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."
Education
"Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards."
Time
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
Man
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
Knowledge
"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
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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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Personal Development
"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."
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Personal Development
"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."
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Personal Development
"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."
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Personal Development
"A monster's worst fear is of being found."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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