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Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
Publisher
Writer
Kingston
Hands
Feds
Come
Jump
Take
Fears
Pass
Friend
Hand
Peer
Fear
Abyss
Tell
Peers

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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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