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"I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed."
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"You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy."
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"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."
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"At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut one's eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think instead of what is pleasant. When a man is alone he generally listens to the first voice; in the company of his fellow-men, to the second."
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"It was nothing but a hole, a mouth open wide. You could lean over the edge and peer down to see nothing. All I knew about the well was its frightening depth. It was deep beyond measuring, and crammed full of darkness, as if all the world's darkness had been boiled down to their ultimate density."
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"The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self - absorption and self - sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed."
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"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."
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"There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead."
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"The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another."
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"Great fear is concealed under daring."
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"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."
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"I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion."
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"I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed."
Fear

"People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music."
Music

"Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer."
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"Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through."
God

"If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too."
Love

"When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!"
Love

"If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts."
Kids

"It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine."
Music

"I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate."
Time
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