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“The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst - for me, at least - is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything that I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.”

Source: Nightmares & Dreamscapes

“Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.”

“A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.”

Night Belief Lord Fate Worst Slavery Awe Necks Tyrants Strict Everlasting Imposing

Author:Epicurus

“It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.”

Faith Belief Impossible Relationship Worst Trust Oneself Cells Distrust Father Son Without Trust

Book:The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear

Source: The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear

“The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.”

Ifs May Belief Worst Understood Doctrine

Book:The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

Source: The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

“I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.”

Able Belief Worst Fit Skins Hardest Ease Colour

Author:Alicia Keys

“I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he's a bit of an underachiever.”

Thinking Doe Said Certain Belief Bits Worst Superstitions Worst Things

Author:Woody Allen

“Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.”