Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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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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I hate jeans for no reason.
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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
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To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.
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I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
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Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.
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Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.
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Nobody wants to read happy stories.
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Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
