Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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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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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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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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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
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My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.
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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 you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
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Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.
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It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten to murder Americans.
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People reacted to how I looked, and that was certainly a power to have as a young girl, but not one that you really understand.
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My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It's great leverage; we abuse it all the time!
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The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.
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There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
