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- Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
- Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
- If my religion is true, it will stand up to all my questioning; there is no need to fear.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
- Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
- Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Of course, the person I was fleeing most fearfully was myself, for I drive, and I'm burning a collapsed barn behind the house next week because it is much the cheapest way to deal with it, and I live on about four hundred times the money that Thoreau conclusively proved was enough, so I've done my share to take this independent, eternal world and turn it into a science fair project.
- Bill McKibbon, "The End of Nature"
- There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
- Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
- Stendhal
- Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
- Horace Smith
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