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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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They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. – Joseph Conrad

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Loyalty
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The scariest thought in the world is that someday Ill wake up and realize Ive been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. – George Saunders

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Fear

Respect and fear are two different things. – Jane Smiley

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Fear

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. – Umberto Eco

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Fear

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride. – Jonathan Sacks

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It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today its energy. Its the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see. – Josef Albers

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I know what I look like – a weird, sad clown puppet. Im fine with that. – Rainn Wilson

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There is little more powerful than when truth joins action. – Bryant H. McGill

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Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administrations first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government. – Eliot Spitzer

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