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" Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. "

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" I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain. "

" When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. "

" To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. "

" Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? "

" If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "

" Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "

" The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. "

" Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. "

" He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing. "

" What do you despise? By this are you truly known. "

" Something cannot emerge from nothing. "

" One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. "

" The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. "

" Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. "

" Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker. "

" The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. "

" Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. "

" Truth suffers from too much analysis. "

" There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. "

" To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. "

" Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. "

" Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. "

" It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. "

" The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent. "