Quote by Titus Livius
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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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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. – Titus Livius

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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. – Titus Livius

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie

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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse. – Patrick Swayze

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You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down its not a legitimate regime, it doesnt represent the will of the people, its kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy. – Hillary Clinton

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If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to peoples sense of alarm… but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here. – Brit Hume

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There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness. – Dalai Lama

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Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? – Emily Bronte

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Im enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything thats considered artistic, theres a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It cant exist without it. – Steve Martin

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