"If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it."

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Francis Chichester

#Positive Quotes #Trying Quotes #Conquer Quotes

“So, ah, I'm not sure if you know this, but you're not wearing a shirt." "Distracting, isn't it?”
“When God is seeking a person, he will not allow my fear, my feeling of intimidation or my lack of knowledge or experience to prevent that person from finding him.”

Source : David Peterson, Rebecca Manley-Pippert (2013). “Out of the Saltshaker and into the World: Evangelism As A Way Of Life”, p.22, SPCK
“I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.”
“There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.”
“Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it...”
“Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.”
“The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left.”
“When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”

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