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• Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent vast hostility of the elements, he rages against futility and asserts his right of being

  Jim Perrin

  Loss, Men, Climbing

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• Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go on its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.

  Sheng-yen

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

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• The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not men disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God.

  Thomas Traherne

  Fear, Men, Mirrors

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.24, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Fear, Home

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

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• Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

  Dan Barker

  Fear, Opposites, Safety

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

  Dan Barker

  Prayer, Fear, Atheism

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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  As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

  Robert Plant

  Fear, Wind, Soul

  "Robert Plant: Born In England; Made In America". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 20, 2010.

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• Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Religious, Fear

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.449, Library of Alexandria

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• When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars,
  And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.

  Horace

  Fear, War, Atheism

  "The Works of Horace".

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• Misery motivates, not utopia.

  Karl Marx

  Fear, Atheism, Misery

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• I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fear, Thinking, Ideas

  Isaac Asimov (1992). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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• Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?

  Dan Barker

  Fear, Vanity, Blood

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• When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Passion, People

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.

  Gilbert Highet

  Fear, Believe, Thinking

  Gilbert Highet (1954). “Man's Unconquerable Mind”, p.57, Columbia University Press

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• ...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

  Lucretius

  Fear, Space, People

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

  Lucretius

  Fear, Atheism, Creation

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.22, Psychology Press

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• Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Fear, Hands

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Powerful, Fear

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• The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fear, Military, Historical

  Adolf Hitler, General Press (2016). “Mein Kampf: (My Struggle)”, p.95, GENERAL PRESS

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• The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Fear, Creating, Anxiety

  "Best of the Century" by Albert Ellis, www.psychologytoday.com. November 1, 1999.

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• I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.

  Charlton Heston

  Fear, Believe, Heart

  "Truth And Consequences". Speech to the Yale University Political Union, www.varmintal.com. April 16, 1999.

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• Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fear, Men, Atheism

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.54, Knopf

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• The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs in the body...our emotions and higher callings, such as religion, as well as our grubby low-level physical systems like stereo vision and motor control, are products of a machine.

  Steven Pinker

  Fear, Years, Brain

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• It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of men still believe that the universe is run by a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft and girth, who is nevertheless interested in the minutest details of the private conduct of even the meanest man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Fear, Real

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• If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

  Marilyn Manson

  Fear, Reality, Atheism

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