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Fear itself
#278
Author: bearclaw
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:39
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Things to remember as the campaign heats up:


"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."
---- Coleridge

Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it."
---- Lt. John B. Putnam Jr. (1921-1944)

"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent 
than the snake."
---- Edgar Wallace - The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)

"What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope."
---- Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.)

"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."
---- German Proverb

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, 
unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat 
into advance."
---- FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."
---- Dorothy Thompson

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They 
seem to be more afraid of life than death"
---- James F. Bymes

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the 
thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to 
revoke at any moment."
---- Marcus Aurelius

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
---- Marie Curie

"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before 
you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will 
be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it."
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes 
indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the 
gloomy."
---- Thomas Jefferson, 1816

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love 
today."
---- William Allen White

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."
---- Napoleon I

"The things which we fear the most in life have already happend to us."
---- Robin Williams, One Hour Photo

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he 
uses to frighten you."
---- Eric Hoffer

And finally, something for both candidate and voter:

"No one loves the man whom he fears."
---- Aristotle
Re: Fear itself
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Author: Sev
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:25
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bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> Things to remember as the campaign heats up:



Don't forget loathing...
Re: Fear itself
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Author: Don K
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:08
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<bearclaw@cruller.invalid> wrote in message 
news:bearclaw-FD5C4A.18393630092006@news.supernews.com...
> Things to remember as the campaign heats up:

You're starting up another one of your campaigns?
Give it a rest for a while.

Don 
Re: Fear itself
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Author: EDM
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:33
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<bearclaw@cruller.invalid> wrote in message news:bearclaw-FD5C4A.18393630092006@news.supernews.com...
> Things to remember as the campaign heats up:

You forgot the most appropriate quote of all:

"If tyranny ever comes to this land , it will come in the
guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison
Re: Fear itself
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Author: cat
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:43
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<bearclaw@cruller.invalid> wrote in message

> Things to remember as the campaign heats up:

That you're a fucking cross-posting OT spammer?  Got it.
Re: Fear itself
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Author: Gene S. Berkowitz
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 04:00
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In article <bearclaw-FD5C4A.18393630092006@news.supernews.com>, 
bearclaw@cruller.invalid says...
> Things to remember as the campaign heats up:
> 
> 
> "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."
> ---- Coleridge
> 
> Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it."
> ---- Lt. John B. Putnam Jr. (1921-1944)
> 
> "Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent 
> than the snake."
> ---- Edgar Wallace - The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)
> 
> "What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope."
> ---- Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.)
> 
> "Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."
> ---- German Proverb
> 
> "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, 
> unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat 
> into advance."
> ---- FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
> 
> "Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."
> ---- Dorothy Thompson
> 
> "Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They 
> seem to be more afraid of life than death"
> ---- James F. Bymes
> 
> "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the 
> thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to 
> revoke at any moment."
> ---- Marcus Aurelius
> 
> "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
> ---- Marie Curie
> 
> "Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before 
> you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will 
> be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it."
> ---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
> 
> "I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes 
> indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the 
> gloomy."
> ---- Thomas Jefferson, 1816
> 
> "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love 
> today."
> ---- William Allen White
> 
> "He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."
> ---- Napoleon I
> 
> "The things which we fear the most in life have already happend to us."
> ---- Robin Williams, One Hour Photo
> 
> "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he 
> uses to frighten you."
> ---- Eric Hoffer
> 
> And finally, something for both candidate and voter:
> 
> "No one loves the man whom he fears."
> ---- Aristotle

"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear� fear of war, 
fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or 
fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad 
debts, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on 
vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer."
---- Hunter S. Thompson

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that 
brings total obliteration. I will face my fear... And when it is gone 
past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear is gone 
there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
---- Paul Muad'Dib Atreides

"I sense much fear in this one. Fear leads to anger, and anger leads to 
hatred, and hatred leads to suffering."
---- Yoda

"There's no need to fear; Under Dog is here!"
---- Under Dog

"Mutants are not the ones mankind should fear."
---- Dr. Jean Grey

"You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your 
mind."
---- Morpheus
Re: Fear itself
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Author: bearclaw
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:21
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In article <ePGTg.1728$xI4.315@fed1read11>,
 "cat" <catcatcat@catcatcatcat.cat> wrote:

> That you're a fucking cross-posting OT spammer?  Got it.

Well, you got the "fucking" part right. That's why I couldn't be a U.S. 
politician. They aren't allowed to get laid or blown, no matter what 
their party affiliation. 

You getting any lately?
Re: Fear itself
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Author: bearclaw
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:24
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In article <WoudnW3SwbefvoLYnZ2dnUVZ_o2dnZ2d@comcast.com>,
 "Don K" <dk@dont_bother_me.com> wrote:

> You're starting up another one of your campaigns?

Naw. This would be a great country if it was a dictatorship, as long as 
I'm the dictator. Heh-heh.
Re: Fear itself
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Author: bearclaw
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:26
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In article <MPG.1f89076316f2b7379897d6@newsgroups.comcast.net>,
 Gene S. Berkowitz <first.last@comcast.net> wrote:

> "We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear� fear of war, 
> fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or 
> fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad 
> debts, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on 
> vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer."
> ---- Hunter S. Thompson

Oh, come on. Everyone knows that Hunter S. Thompson is a fictional 
character, unlike the other speakers you quoted.
Re: Fear itself
#293
Author: nicksanspam
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:02
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EDM <EDM_spamblock_@rsii.net> wrote:

><bearclaw@cruller.invalid> wrote

>> Things to remember as the campaign heats up:
>
>You forgot the most appropriate quote of all:
>
>"If tyranny ever comes to this land , it will come in the
>guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison

How about 

    All that is necessary for peace to triumph in the world
    is for enough good men to do nothing.

                       Bertrand Russell (after Burke)

                       from "In Praise of Idleness"(?)

Nick
Re: Fear itself
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Author: bat
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:26
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 b> Oh, come on. Everyone knows that Hunter S. Thompson is a fictional
 b> character, unlike the other speakers you quoted.

Morpheus, for example.
Re: Fear itself
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Author: Larry Bud
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:07
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bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> Things to remember as the campaign heats up:
>

Fear is running from your enemy instead of standing up and fighting him.
Re: Fear itself
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Author: EDM
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:24
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"Larry Bud" <larrybud2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1159974437.585564.27040@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
>
> bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> > Things to remember as the campaign heats up:
> >
>
> Fear is running from your enemy instead of standing up and fighting him.

And stupidity is waging war against a human emotion, while
making a political career out of that same emotion.
Re: Fear itself
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Author: krw
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:20
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In article <anQUg.3021$Lv3.1571@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, 
EDM_spamblock_@rsii.net says...
> "Larry Bud" <larrybud2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1159974437.585564.27040@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> > > Things to remember as the campaign heats up:
> > >
> >
> > Fear is running from your enemy instead of standing up and fighting him.
> 
> And stupidity is waging war against a human emotion, while
> making a political career out of that same emotion.
> 

No, "stupid" is listening to someone who has proven that he has the 
will and the means,  say that he intends to kill you and not taking 
the threat seriously.

-- 
  Keith
Re: Fear itself
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Author: EDM
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 15:13
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"krw" <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote in message news:MPG.1f90f09ca79153b1989a17@news.individual.net...
> In article <anQUg.3021$Lv3.1571@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
> EDM_spamblock_@rsii.net says...
> > "Larry Bud" <larrybud2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1159974437.585564.27040@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> > >
> > > bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> > > > Things to remember as the campaign heats up:
> > > >
> > >
> > > Fear is running from your enemy instead of standing up and fighting him.
> >
> > And stupidity is waging war against a human emotion, while
> > making a political career out of that same emotion.
> >
>
> No, "stupid" is listening to someone who has proven that he has the
> will and the means,  say that he intends to kill you and not taking
> the threat seriously.

And does taking the threat seriously equate to flushing the
lives of 2500 (and counting) American soldiers and $10
billion a month directly down the toilet?  While bin Laden,
Mullah Omar et al still run around free as birds after FIVE
YEARS?

Bush's war hero schtick might have you fooled.  Not me.
Re: Fear itself
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Author: krw
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:20
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In article <IuPVg.8363$o71.3641@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>, 
EDM_spamblock_@rsii.net says...
> "krw" <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote in message news:MPG.1f90f09ca79153b1989a17@news.individual.net...
> > In article <anQUg.3021$Lv3.1571@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
> > EDM_spamblock_@rsii.net says...
> > > "Larry Bud" <larrybud2002@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1159974437.585564.27040@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> > > >
> > > > bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> > > > > Things to remember as the campaign heats up:
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Fear is running from your enemy instead of standing up and fighting him.
> > >
> > > And stupidity is waging war against a human emotion, while
> > > making a political career out of that same emotion.
> > >
> >
> > No, "stupid" is listening to someone who has proven that he has the
> > will and the means,  say that he intends to kill you and not taking
> > the threat seriously.
> 
> And does taking the threat seriously equate to flushing the
> lives of 2500 (and counting) American soldiers and $10
> billion a month directly down the toilet?

Yes.  Was the cost of WWII too much?

> While bin Laden, Mullah Omar et al still run around free as birds after FIVE
> YEARS?

et. al.?  None of the Taliban and Al Quieda have been captured or 
killed?
> 
> Bush's war hero schtick might have you fooled.  Not me.

Worse. You've been fooled by CBS news.

-- 
  Keith
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