"When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear. [Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidate coeperunt.]"

-- Quintus Curtius Rufus

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“Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one anotherâ€™s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning oneâ€™s standards or oneâ€™s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.”
“Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say " Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 244, 1895.
“I am the King of biting off more than I can chew.”
“I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.”
“Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.”
“In violence, we forget who we are”

Source : On the Contrary (1961) "Characters in Fiction "
“The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after a while, he looks about him. The territory is unfamiliar, the forest ahead forbidding. Just how 'different' dare he be? He looks at his resources, and then at the established successes of the past. He suddenly realizes he must play safe, be sure. The unknown is a gamble; the known isn't-at least comparatively. The safest plan, obviously, is to follow the trailblazers. So he produces an imitation of one of the current successes. Usually it is a mediocre imitation.”
“Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.”

Source : "Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture". Book by Allen Carlson, Routledge, London & New York, p. 118, "Abstract Art, Concrete Art", 2005.

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