Quote by Bertrand Russell
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell

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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. – Bertrand Russell

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Respect and fear are two different things. – Jane Smiley

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Fear

I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear. – Thomas Friedman

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Fear

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that wed have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. Thats dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank. – George Osborne

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Fear

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And thats my one fear: that everything has happened nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. – J. G. Ballard

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With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how youre gonna get out of it. Its like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When youre acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling. – John Cusack

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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. – Katharine Hepburn

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