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A line from one of my 1997 columns - Do one thing every day that s

A line from one of my 1997 columns – Do one thing every day that scares you – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I dont believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. – Mary Schmich

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Dont expect anyone else to support you. Maybe youll have a trust fund. Maybe youll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out. – Mary Schmich

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For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. – Mary Schmich

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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. – Federico Garcia Lorca

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What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Freedom is contagious. Thats why despots fear it so much. – Bill Owens

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He doesnt know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesnt know the meaning of most words. – Bobby Bowden

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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. – William James

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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake. – Quintilian

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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. – Diane Arbus

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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt

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