"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."
-George MacDonald
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"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.“
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"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."
-George MacDonald
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"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."
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"To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power."
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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
-Candace Bushnell
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
-Nicholas Hoult
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
-Camille Claudel
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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