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I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world thats becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. – Bell Hooks

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No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women… When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. – Bell Hooks

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Women
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Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but its not unfamiliar to you. Its always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. – Bell Hooks

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Death
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Many spiritual teachers – in Buddhism, in Islam – have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. – Bell Hooks

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger. – Akhenaton

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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. – H. L. Mencken

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A persons fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I dont know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage. – Jeff Bridges

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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two. – Shimon Peres

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. – Aristotle

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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: theyve been hurt, theyre sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell thats protecting this tiny, dear part in them thats still alive. – Jeff Bridges

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