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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. There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age.
  • 2. Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession education hours worked age marital status and children men still are compensated substantially more – even in professions like nursing dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
  • 3. Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.
  • 2. Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
  • 3. Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues that they're not afraid to speak about theirs which is an amazing feeling.

3 Anger

  • 1. I have some anger issues.
  • 2. A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off roused me into productivity and creativity.
  • 3. The poor monkey quietly seated on the ground seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
  • 2. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
  • 3. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture of all the arts is the one which acts the most slowly but the most surely on the soul.
  • 2. The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.
  • 3. Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
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