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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My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
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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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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment.
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I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.
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A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.
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Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
