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Quote by Etty Hillesum
I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength. – Etty Hillesum

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We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. – Etty Hillesum

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Worry
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Etty Hillesum
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Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. – Etty Hillesum

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Peace
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Etty Hillesum
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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! – May Sarton

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Fear

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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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Fear

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency. – Douglas MacArthur

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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. – George Orwell

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Fear

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