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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will …

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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. Sophocles, Antigone At this point, you’ve likely noticed a trend in these posts. Yes, they’re all about means of self-improvement and traps we fall into, but they have all been …

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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. John Stuart Mill, inaugural address delivered before the University of St. Andrews, 1867 I’m a cradle Catholic. For a lot of people, that implies I don’t know much about the Bible. The long-persisting stigma of the …

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