Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~Chinese Proverb
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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Every beginning is weak. ~Irish Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. ~Doris Kearns Goodwin
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A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens
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A whistling woman and a crowing hen will bring no luck to the house they are in. ~Irish Proverb
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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I have accepted fear as a part of life; specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ~Erica Jong
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process. ~Abdallah II of Jordan
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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