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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. ↗

— George Boole

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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. ↗

— William Cowper

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I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

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As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success. ↗

— Lewis Hallam

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I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal. ↗

— Graham Kennedy

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Second guesses in putting are fatal. ↗

— Bobby Locke

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