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" Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. "

Arnold H. Glasow

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" There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be. "

" 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. "

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" You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense. "

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" It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. "

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" In time we hate that which we often fear. "

William Shakespeare

" What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. "

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