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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson

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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. – Thomas Jefferson

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The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen. – David Wilkerson

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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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Youve got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge. – Mariska Hargitay

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Try a thing you havent done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. – Virgil Thomson

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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. – Albert Einstein

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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still dont get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family? – Gertrude Stein

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Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. – Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

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Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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