"I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers."
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.“
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."
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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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