"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."

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"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."

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"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."

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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

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Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."

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"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

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"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."

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"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us."

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"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."

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"If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God."

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"How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"

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"Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people."

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