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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
by Helen Keller (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: avoiding, bold, caught, danger, exposure, fearful, long, often, outright, run, safer , than It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
by Kevin Kline (Actor, American , born in 1947) keywords: completely, every, fearful, had, incomprehensible, language, look, third, up , word And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
by Thomas B. Macaulay (Historian, English , born in 1800) keywords: ashes, better, die, facing, fathers, fearful, gods, his, how, man, odds, temples , than In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
by Henry Mayhew (Journalist, English , born in 1812) keywords: ago, appeared, cholera, down, end, fearful, first, opposite, ran, seventeen, severity, spread, street, up, year , years When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.
by Linda McCartney (Photographer, American , born in 1941) keywords: arrested, became, cell, days, fearful, hash, having, his, japan, kept, luggage, more, night, out, paul, really, serious, stuff, thought , went 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.
by John Mortimer (Novelist, English , born in 1923) keywords: censorship, dread, fear, fearful, feel, flattered, laws, magic, primitive, print, should, show, suppose, way , writers By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.
by Steven Pinker (Scientist, Canadian , born in 1954) keywords: discoveries, exploring, fearful, honest, intellectual, less, makes, milieu, moral, more, political, science, tick , us Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
by Francis Quarles (Poet, English , born in 1592) keywords: enjoyments, fearful, heart, lest, prudence, satiety, temper, word, written , your If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.
by Susan Sarandon (Actor, American , born in 1946) keywords: box, choice, down, either, extension, family, fearful, home, makes, other, person, really, see, self-serving, someone, street, them, very, walk, world , your The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.
by Charles Sturt (Explorer, Australian , born in 1795) keywords: believe, climate, commencement, droughts, fearful, new, periodically, reason, remarkable, south, subject, those, wales, which , year We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.
by Patricia Sunkeywords: because, contend, fearful, feel, information, lose, makes, mostly, need, operative, poles, powerless, problem, solve, splits, style, thinking, two , us I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
by Lars von Trier (Director, Danish , born in 1956) keywords: after, another, any, coming, down, enormity, fearful, less, make, mother, out, pouring, she, sit, up, way, woes , year Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
by George Washington (President, American , born in 1732) topics: Government keywords: dangerous, eloquent, fearful, fire, force, government, master, reason , servant Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
by Xun Zi (Philosopher , Chinese) keywords: avoid, aware, bravery, death, dog, drink, fearful, food, greater, greedily, having, injury, knowing, neither, nor, numbers, only, over, right, scruples, shame, strength, such, trying , wrong
