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“The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.”
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“I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.”
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“We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.”
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“Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.”
Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1997). “The Bookshop”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.”
Source : John Berryman (2014). “The Dream Songs: Poems”, p.168, Macmillan
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“The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.”
Source : "Tea Party Senator Mike Lee: We Need to Change the Way We Spend Money in Washington". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2011. 
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“Nothing is sacred to a gamester.”
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“James Porter said to me once, when I was talking about painting, he said, well, that's fine, he said, but you have a good mind so you can't just be a painter; you're going to have to help define the field and keep the tradition going. And he meant walking in his footsteps in a certain way.”
Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
