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31.
“In order for stories to work – for kids and for adults – they should scare. And you should triumph. There’s no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn’t scary.”
Neil Gaiman
Storytelling
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Triumph
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Fear
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Childhood
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Moral
32.
“People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange.”
Neil Gaiman
Fear
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Persecution
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History
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Prejudice
,
Misunderstanding
33.
“Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”
Neil Gaiman
Bravery
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Courage
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Fear
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Action
,
Morality
34.
“It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house – and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.”
Neil Gaiman
Perception
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Imagination
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Fear
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Perspective
,
Reality
35.
“Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it.”
Neil Gaiman
Courage
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Fear
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Action
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Personal Growth
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Motivation
36.
“The stories had claimed that people in the area had been "terrorized" by some repulsively deformed "goblinlike" creature who regularly broke out of the Woodshead and committed an impressively wide range of unspeakable acts.”
Douglas Adams
Rumors
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Monsters
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Fear
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Exaggeration
,
Storytelling
37.
“The fear of getting caught was not driven by the fear of paying the price. Rather, it was the fear of having to stop.”
John Grisham
Fear
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Addiction
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Consequences
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Human Behavior
,
Motivation
38.
“A lawyer had to be himself in the courtroom, and if he was afraid, so be it. The jurors were afraid too. Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.”
John Grisham
Legal Profession
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Fear
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Authenticity
,
Courtroom Drama
,
Personal Growth
39.
“Pointing the finger at Ross Bannick was a terrifying act, not because she was afraid of being wrong, but because she feared the man himself.”
John Grisham
Accusation
,
Fear
,
Courage
,
Justice
,
Personal Safety
40.
“Make friends with fear, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.”
John Grisham
Fear
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Advice
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Self-improvement
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Personal Growth
,
Emotional Management
41.
“Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Superstition
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Fear
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Safety
,
Childhood
,
Humor
42.
“She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Perception
,
Misunderstanding
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Simplicity
,
Fear
,
Human Nature
43.
“I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Perspective
,
Change
,
Youth
,
Disillusionment
,
Fear
44.
“Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Imagination
,
Fear
,
Human Nature
,
Creativity
,
Psychology
45.
“Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.”
Michel de Montaigne
Courage
,
Wisdom
,
Human Nature
,
Fear
,
Perspective
46.
“The thing I fear most is fear.”
Michel de Montaigne
Fear
,
Human Nature
,
Self-awareness
,
Psychology
,
Courage
47.
“It needs courage to be afraid.”
Michel de Montaigne
Courage
,
Fear
,
Paradox
,
Human Nature
,
Wisdom
48.
“It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.”
Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom
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Satisfaction
,
Fear
,
Stubbornness
,
Human Nature
49.
“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.”
Michel de Montaigne
Death
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Fear
,
Human Nature
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Mortality
,
Wisdom
50.
“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.”
Michel de Montaigne
Fear
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Contagion
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Emotion
,
Human Nature
,
Psychology
51.
“The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents.”
Michel de Montaigne
Fear
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Emotion
,
Human Nature
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Psychology
,
Self-awareness
52.
“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
Michel de Montaigne
Fear
,
Suffering
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Anticipation
,
Psychology
,
Human Nature
53.
“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
Michel de Montaigne
Fear
,
Suffering
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Anticipation
,
Psychology
,
Human Nature
54.
“The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.”
Michel de Montaigne
Honor
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Fear
,
Respect
,
Power
,
Human Nature
55.
“It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.”
Michel de Montaigne
Fear
,
Emotion
,
Human Nature
,
Psychology
,
Self-awareness
56.
“What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.”
Michel de Montaigne
Fear
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Will
,
Human Nature
,
Decision-making
,
Psychological Impact
57.
“There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.”
Michel de Montaigne
Death
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Fear
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Freedom
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Philosophy
,
Human Condition
58.
“The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.”
Michel de Montaigne
Familiarity
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Change
,
Human Nature
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Fear
,
Adversity
59.
“Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.”
Michel de Montaigne
Lying
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Morality
,
Fear
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Religion
,
Human Nature
60.
“It will generally be found that as soon as the terrors of life reach the point where they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to his life.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Suicide
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Life
,
Fear
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Existential Crisis
,
Human Psychology
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