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Quote by Joseph Conrad
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter throu

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad

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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. – Joseph Conrad

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teacher
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Joseph Conrad
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As to honor – you know – its a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasnt theirs. – Joseph Conrad

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Women
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Fear
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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true. – Alexander Payne

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Fear

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. – George W. Bush

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Fear

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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Fear

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution? – Rand Paul

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Fear

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Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. – Ambrose Bierce

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Its so funny when youre actually directing because things start popping that you dont expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesnt quite have the impetus that you thought it might. – Stephen Moyer

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Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic. – Ivan Lendl

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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society. – Mike Tyson

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Society