"Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became."

Fear, Danger

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"Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became."

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"You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you."

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"May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed..."

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"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

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Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads."

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