Herbert Spencer Quotes
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
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I don't fear anything now.
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
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Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
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I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
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To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots.
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I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.
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Acquisitiveness – the wish to possess as much as possible of goods, or the title to goods – is a motive which, I suppose, has its origin in a combination of fear with the desire for necessaries.
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Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
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What does Sullivan do? He points at people. Rub meat on actors and dogs will do the same thing.
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If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.
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You never know when your time is going to come, if it's going to come, so when it does, you have to take advantage of it.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.
