Will Durant Quotes
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Quotes to Explore
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
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You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
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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 public spending in the form of transfer payments makes various services and benefits free of charge, work is discouraged. Yet it is precisely Social Security that legislators fear to cut.
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Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
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Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
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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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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
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Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
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The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper
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We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.
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I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.
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In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
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The 9/11 truthers hate my guts.
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Why does one exist? That's not my problem. One does exist. The thing to do is to take no notice but go at it on the run and to keep on going right on until you die.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
