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Roosevelts declaration that Americans had nothing to fear but fear

Roosevelts declaration that Americans had nothing to fear but fear itself was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. – Russell Baker

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Reporters thrive on the worlds misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. – Russell Baker

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Politics
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Russell Baker
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Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didnt know. – Russell Baker

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Change
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Fear
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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. – Emmanuel Teney

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Whats powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. Its seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear. – Patrick Swayze

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Fear

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. – Eric Hoffer

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I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. – Joan Didion

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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. – Johann von Goethe

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Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. Hes always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children. – Steve Wozniak

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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. – Thomas Hobbes

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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. – Sallust

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