There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

Bernard Beckett
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  2. It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias. - Criss Jami

  3. I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself. - Toba Beta

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  1. Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

  2. In the end, living is defined by dying.

  3. But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine it loses its grip.

  4. Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition....

  5. Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

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