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• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
  To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life....
• The fear of sponge-cats is the beginning of wisdom.
• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)...
• Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)...
• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• Sin is geographical. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge
  fools despise wisdom and instruction. -- Proverbs 1:7...
• The beginning of wisdom is fear (respect for) of God.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) "Don Quixote," see Proverbs 1:7...