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To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.

Judith N. Shklar
Fear, Alarms, Alive
Judith N. Shklar, Stanley Hoffmann (1998). “Political Thought and Political Thinkers”, p.11, University of Chicago Press
To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.