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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but als

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. – Elias Canetti

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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. – Elias Canetti

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Mystery
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? – Elias Canetti

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Decisions
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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. – Elias Canetti

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Philosophy
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If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. – Ivo Andric

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Fear follows crime and is its punishment. – Voltaire

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A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man. – Seneca, “On Tranquility of Mind,” translated by Moses Hadas

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Fear

When the entertainers of the Right arent declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, theyre pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call the Chicago way. – Thomas Frank

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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. – Irving Babbitt

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. – Plato

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Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak. – Anon.

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Mommy smoked but she didnt want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped. – Loretta Lynn

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