"There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Fear Quotes #Pain Quotes #Coffee Quotes

“The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.”
“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.”
“Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.”

Source : Jim C. Hines (2010). “Red Hood's Revenge”, p.231, Penguin
“The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once many party bigwigs did get to know me, they weren't sure that I could win the seat.”
“Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.”
“Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.”
“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.”

Source : George Jacob Holyoake (1850). “The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England: A Fragment of Autobiography, Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney General and the British Clergy”, p.37
“The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.”

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