“What was reprehensible in being fearful in the presence of the unknown?”
Source: A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975), Chapter 1, “Planetfall: The Hawks of Conscience” (p. 33)
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Pilgrim's Way (1940), p. 117
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“To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.”
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