"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.“

-Umberto Eco

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"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."

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"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."

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"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

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"In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner."

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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."

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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."

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