David Gemmell Quotes
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The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
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I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.
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Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
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In the heart of Europe runs the purest stream of human love, of justice, of spirit of self-sacrifice for higher ideals. The Christian culture of centuries has sunk deep in her life's core. In Europe we have seen noble minds who have ever stood up for the rights of man irrespective of colour and creed.
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Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.
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If the E.U. allows itself to be priced out of the world economy, the next generation will not get jobs, living standards will decline, and the Union will lose the popular consent of the people of Europe.
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The onset of fear makes the simplest actions complex and difficult.
