a fighting chance

"This goes back to the issue of fear. Fear. We're born just fine. Then suddenly, someone tells us, "Don't do this or that, because…" We get scared. Then we reach the age when we can think for ourselves, and start fighting all our acquired fears. And we have until we die to beat all those fears."

-from conversation in "Inside the Barbarian Invasions" the commentary to "The Barbarian Invasions"