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" I find fear is a great motivator to work hard. "

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" Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. "

" We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. "

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" March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. "

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