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• I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, How You Feel, Hell

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.108, Penguin

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• Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

  John Ashcroft

  Christian, People, Dignity

  Remarks addressed to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, February 19, 2002.

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• His body is changing. He will strip down and start getting even bigger and stronger over the next few seasons and, seriously, how scary is that? He will be unstoppable. He has just got to realise how good he is and what he can do in the game if he puts his mind to it.

  Wendell Sailor

  Rugby League, Games, Mind

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• It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

  Jami Gertz

  Depressing, Two, Years

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• When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

  Douglas Coupland

  California, Culture, Assuming

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• Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.

  Bo Lozoff

  Life, Depressing, Stories

  Bo Lozoff (2015). “We're All Doing Time: A Guide for Getting Free”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt lately and described as a sadness-based fear, immune to tone and interpretation, as if not meant for humans - more visceral than sadness, but unlike fear because it decreased heart rate and impaired the senses, causing everything to seem 'darker.

  Tao Lin

  Sadness, Heart, Way

  Tao Lin (2013). “Taipei”, p.146, Canongate Books

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• Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice.

  Henry M. Morris

  Christian, Practice, Roots

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• You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'

  Elizabeth Warren

  Hurt, Agreement, Two

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• It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.

  Julian Sanchez

  Scary Stories, Frustrated, Liberty

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• I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it's on every channel.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Games, Police, Video

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Knowing, People, Negativity

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• It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Use, Eras

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• The mighty hunter," I quipped as we snuck out the backdoor, escaping into the yard. "He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but one old lady can make him flee in terror.""One scary old lady," he corrected me, looking relieved to be out of the house. "You didn't hear what she told me when I got up - you're so cute I could put you in a pie. Tell me that's not the creepiest thing you've ever heard." His voice climbed a few octaves, turning shrill and breathy. "Today for dessert, we have apple pie, blueberry pie and Ezekiel pie.

  Julie Kagawa

  Cute, Escaping, Voice

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• The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.

  Simon Sinek

  Trying, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Apr 28, 2015

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• Sandy deWitt at TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris in Johannesburg, South Africa, taught me to make a decision and stick with it. Every day we're faced with reasons why we shouldn't do good work: it's too scary, too hard to pull off, there's no time, no money, etc. You have to be brave and commit to your choices in the face of adversity. If you waver, nothing will turn out the way you imagined it.

  Melissa Sue Anderson

  Adversity, Decision, Brave

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• The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

  Seth Godin

  Goal, Hook

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• And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Believe, People

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• Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?

  Julia Cameron

  Prayer, Responsibility, Watches

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Penguin

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• A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.

  Lorrie Moore

  Dark, Pages Turning, Matter

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• Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

  Taylor Swift

  Growing Up, Knowing, Without You

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• Most ideas are a bit scary, and if an idea isn't scary, it's not an idea at all.

  Lee Clow

  Ideas, Bits, Ifs

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• People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they write because the world strikes them as being a marvelous place, and they want to keep bringing that to everybody's attention. You know ~ a scary place, a menacing place, an exciting place because it's scary and menacing. But mainly, kind of glorious.

  Warren Zevon

  Girl, Jobs, Writing

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• It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

  Tom Selleck

  Jobs, Character, Interesting

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• I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Littles, Rewards, Found

  "CNBC Transcript: Actor Ashton Kutcher Sits Down with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo on 'Closing Bell' Today". "Closing Bell" with Maria Bartiromo, www.cnbc.com. August 6, 2013.

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