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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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"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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"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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"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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"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."
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"Your children don't have to fear you to respect you."
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"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."
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"Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating."
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"No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight."
Beauty
"Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own."
Acceptance
"Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters."
Content
"Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles."
Fear
"People mistake their limitations for high standards."
Mistake
"Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity."
Life
"The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing."
Act
"Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it."
Dream
"We learn the rope of life by untying its knots."
Life
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