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Only the contemptible fear contempt.

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Fear,

Author:

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt is already accomplished.

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Category: Fear

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.
  • 2. I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
  • 3. I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get the younger their new wives get.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' – none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.
  • 2. But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.
  • 3. Since 'Idol' I've gotten used to having an amazing hair and make-up team around me so I'm starting to get picky. I know what I like now and I'm happy to say 'Could we maybe change that?' if I don't like something. I don't yell or anything but I think I could definitely start to act a little diva-ish when it comes to my look.

3 Anger

  • 1. As the plane got closer to Miami I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger panic despair and helplessness.
  • 2. When anger rises think of the consequences.
  • 3. In our daily life we encounter people who are angry deceitful intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger distrust greed and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 2. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.
  • 3. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
  • 2. I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
  • 3. The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
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