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Quote by Margaret Mead
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of etern

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. – Margaret Mead

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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. – Margaret Mead

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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. – Margaret Mead

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Im always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I dont get too comfortable. – Michael Fassbender

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Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society. – Natan Sharansky

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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: this is not happening in my backyard. – Michelle Bachelet

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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies resources, and minimized their own. – Titus Livius

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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. – Edmund Burke

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Gods forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency. – Jonathan Sacks

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