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There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
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But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the…
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To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally…
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A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
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So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful…
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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited…
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To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.
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You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.
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Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary…
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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
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A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and…
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How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we…
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural…
— Alfred Adler
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
— Aesop
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute…
— Pam Brown
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It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.
— Deborah Bull
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Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes…
— Elias Canetti
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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and…
— Giacomo Casanova
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
— Dante Alighieri
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut…
— Chanakya
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Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should…
— Samuel Logan Brengle
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Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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