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Mary Catherine Bateson

"Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten."

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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

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"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

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"I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I've been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose."

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Amber Hurdle

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

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"Fear attracts attack."

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"I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to subject my nervous system to as little total terror as possible. The cruel paradox of course is that this kind of makeup usually goes hand in hand with a delicate nervous system that's extremely easy to terrify."

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Amber Hurdle

"He wants to enslave you.''I shudder at the thought of being free."

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"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."

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"When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing."

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Amber Hurdle

"Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possible to imagine it turning blood-red, all too possible to imagine a Face forming in lines of fire."

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