"You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog."

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"You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog."

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"Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

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"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared."

Barack Obama, American President

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"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

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"He whom many fear, has himself many to fear."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

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