"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."

Havel, Vaclav on absurdity
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"Fear is met and destroyed with courage."

Bell, James F. on fear
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"We must travel in the direction of our fear."

Berryman, John on fear
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"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts."

Bismarck, Otto Von on fear   

"There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on fear
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"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on fear
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"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on fear
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"First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down."

Bradbury, Ray on fear
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"Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it."

Brown, Les on fear
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death."

Bender, Betty on fear
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"Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices."

Beecher, Henry Ward on fear
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"Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood."

Baudrillard, Jean on fear   

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"

Scully, Frank on risk
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"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!"

Ferber, Edna on writers and writing
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"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism."

Miller, Arthur on tragedies   

"As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger."

Akhenaton on fear
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"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."

Anderson, Marian on fear
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"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid."

Anouilh, Jean on fear
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"Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it."

Ashe, Arthur on fear
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on fear
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"The piano has been drinking, not me."

Waits, Tom on alcohol and alcoholism   

"A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."

Johnson, Samuel on abuse
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"The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, -- you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, -- I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that."

Thoreau, Henry David on rebellion
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"The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else."

Jensen, Andrew on courage
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"I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something."

Jensen, Eric on learning
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"Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated."

Sade, Marquis De on hope
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"O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label."

Andrews, C. D. on war   

"The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene."

Arendt, Hannah on war   

"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."

Benedict, Ruth on war   

"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia."

Bethe, Hans A. on war   

"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or our country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share."

Woolf, Virginia on war   

"I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."

Allen, Woody on physics
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"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."

Bradley, Francis H. on fear
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"In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt."

Reed, John on rebellion   

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"There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion."

Pankhurst, Emmeline on rebellion   

"Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest."

Arafat, Yaser on rebellion
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"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."

Mencken, H. L. on abuse
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"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt."

Bakunin, Mikhail on rebellion
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