"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on."
-Christian Nestell Bovee
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"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."
-Christian Nestell Bovee
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"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."
-Christian Nestell Bovee
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"Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them."
-Christian Nestell Bovee
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"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."
-Christian Nestell Bovee
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"Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination."
-Christian Nestell Bovee
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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
-Arianna Huffington
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
-Candace Bushnell
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
-Nicholas Hoult
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
-Camille Claudel
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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