"In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil."

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Source : Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.72

Anna Brownell Jameson

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“If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it”
“If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.”
“I do think that that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road because there is a tradition of natural-born women, but today where there are so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life, I do accept that because I believe it’s a free country.”

Source : "Miss USA 2012: Miss Rhode Island Takes the Crown" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 4, 2012.
“Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts”
“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.”
“Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.”

Source : Mona Simpson (2011). “The Lost Father”, p.195, Vintage
“People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.”
“Having people wait outside of my house sort of gives me a panic attack. I'm a believer in the concept that people should not be followed and photographed everywhere.”

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