The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

About Elmer Davis

Portrait of Elmer Davis

Elmer Holmes Davis (January 13, 1890 – May 18, 1958) was an American news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient.

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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.

—Peter Cameron in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

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Great fear is concealed under daring.

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Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.

—Carlos A. Urbizo

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

—Harold Wilson

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