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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

~Adam Smith

Topics: Because Conscience Excess Feared More Regulation Subject Than Vice Virtue

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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Among Between Connections Feared Force Most Planet Potentially Problematic Transforming Women Women Are

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I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn't.

~Akhil Sharma

Topics: After Being Book Decided Feared Going Good Had Hoped Important Industry Long Me Merits Novel Perspective Publishing Real Reasons Taken Various Various Reasons Write Written Years

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It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

~Alan Ball

Topics: Agenda Also Any Anybody Different Does Easy Familiar Feared Get Gets Group Just Look Metaphor Mind Misunderstood One Thing Organization Rid Says Shadow Sound Them Thing Vampires Way Who

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For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.

~Alex Berenson

Topics: Among Barry Been Decades Entertainment Entertainment Industry Feared Figures Industry More Most Respected Than Two

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Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Admired Changing Cities Feared Instead Living Objects Process Residents Static Time

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I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

~Armistead Maupin

Topics: Been Could Damn Feared Life Loving Make Mistake Out People Short Someone Too Yourself Youth

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My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

~Armistead Maupin

Topics: About Been Being Could Damn Feared Gay Life Long Loving Make Mistake Only Out People Regret Repressed Short Someone Too Yourself Youth

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In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.

~Austin Clarke

Topics: Activity Avoided Boundless Contemplate Country Days Feared Harder Irish Leaves Less Loss Materialistic Mind New Our Painful Picturesque Poetry Silence State Task Where Which Will

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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Belong Charming Differs Fact Feared Great Great Men He History Loved Lunatics Many Megalomaniac Men Most Narcissist Powerful Rather Seeks Than Type Wishes

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