Nicholas von Hoffman Quotes
Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.
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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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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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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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The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
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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 don't fear anything now.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.
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True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
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Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.
