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I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works...more

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The unknown...the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought...The only thing that makes life possibl...more

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We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go ...more

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He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who...more

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Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

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In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do ...more

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But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.

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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.