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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. – Cyril Connolly

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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are – like fishes not meant to swim. – Cyril Connolly

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. – Cyril Connolly

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon

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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

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The fear of becoming a has-been keeps some people from becoming anything. – Eric Hoffer

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As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and theres a great big world to explore out there. – Beth Ditto

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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. – Nelson Mandela

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Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, youll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a moral value – affordable health care is a moral value etc., – then youll appeal to red-state voters. – Eric Liu

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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. – Marian Wright Edelman

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. – Aristotle

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