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  • Fear — Understanding and overcoming the anxieties that hold us back

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“Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.”
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“Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.”
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“At that time my notions of nuclear power were utterly idyllic. At school and at the university we'd been taught that this was a magical factory that made "energy out of nothing," where people in wh...”
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“Back then everyone was saying: "We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't be any Belarussians left.”
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“We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.”
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