What does not kill me makes me stronger.

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neo - 20 Feb 2007 17:38 GMT

Aspirin, B-complex vitamin C, pantop, nepar, winofit, revital, walnut,
blah blah blah...

I threw away all this stuff.

You got nothing to fear except fear itself.

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(PeteCresswell) - 20 Feb 2007 18:34 GMT

Per neo:

>You got nothing to fear except fear itself.

Ever since I was a kid, whenever I heard that statement (Churchill?) I always
thought "this guy's never met a quadriplegic" or somebody whose brain has become
detached from their spinal cord so as to become a "shut in"..... or somebody
suffering from any one of thousands of diseases/damages that definitely didn't
make them any stronger.

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Curious - 20 Feb 2007 18:40 GMT

"(PeteCresswell)" wrote as eloquently as usual:

> Ever since I was a kid, whenever I heard that statement (Churchill?) I
> always
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> didn't
> make them any stronger.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Bob - 21 Feb 2007 03:42 GMT

>Per neo:
>>You got nothing to fear except fear itself.
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>suffering from any one of thousands of diseases/damages that definitely didn't
>make them any stronger.

The line you seem to refer to ("You got nothing to fear except fear
itself.") is from FDR (Franklin Roosevelt) -- a polio victim who could
not walk unassisted. But the statement was made, most famously at
least, in a political context, re the depression.

bob

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