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- Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Greater is our terror of the unknown.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again! - Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), As Easy as A.B.C. (1917)
- First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
- I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.
- Craig Volk, Northern Exposure, A-Hunting We Will Go, 1991
- The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), September 7, 2003
- Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), September 20, 2001
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