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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Voltaire
French writer, historian, and philosopher (1694–1778)

François-Marie Arouet was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his nom de plume Voltaire, he was famous for his wit, and his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—and of slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Voltaire
French writer, historian, and philosopher (1694–1778)

François-Marie Arouet was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his nom de plume Voltaire, he was famous for his wit, and his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—and of slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Vita Sackville-West
English writer and gardener

Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
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Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

Virginia C. Andrews
novelist

Cleo Virginia Andrews, better known as V. C. Andrews or Virginia C. Andrews, was an American novelist.
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I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Virgil
ancient Roman poet

Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars consider his authorship of these poems as dubious.
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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

Virgil
ancient Roman poet

Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars consider his authorship of these poems as dubious.
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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson
American composer and critic

Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".
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Try a thing you haven't tried before three times--once to get over the fear, once to find out how to do it, and a third time to find out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson
American composer and critic

Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".
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Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Vincent McNabb
Irish scholar and Catholic priest in London,

Vincent McNabb, O.P. was an Irish scholar and priest, based in London, active in evangelisation and apologetics.
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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

Vincent D'Onofrio
American actor, producer, and director

Vincent Philip D'Onofrio is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his supporting and leading roles in both film and television. He has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
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