Fear Quotes
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“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
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“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.”
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“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
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“I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.”
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”
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“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
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“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
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“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
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“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
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“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”
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“To him who is in fear everything rustles.”
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“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
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“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.”
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“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
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“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”
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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
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“Don't be afraid to see what you see.”
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“What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.”
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“There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.”
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“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.”
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“As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.”
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“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”
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“Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.”
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“What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”
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“Do what you fear and fear disappears.”
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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
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“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
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“My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”
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“We fear the thing we want the most.”
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“You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.”
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“Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”
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“The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.”
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“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.”
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“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
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“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.”
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“Fear is the mother of foresight.”
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“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”
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“We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.”
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“Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.”
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“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”
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“I say I am stronger than fear.”
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“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.”
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“Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.”
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“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
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“Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.”
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“A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.”
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“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”
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“We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.”
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“We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.”
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“The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.”
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“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”
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“Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.”
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“True nobility is exempt from fear.”
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“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”
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“Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.”
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“Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.”
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“Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.”
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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“Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.”
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“If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”
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“Fear is excitement without breath.”
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“One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.”
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“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.”
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“Never be afraid to sit a while and think.”
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“I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.”
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“So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.”
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“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”
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“The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.”
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“I have a fear of being boring.”
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“To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”
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“There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.”
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“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
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“This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.”
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“I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.”
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“I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear… that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.”
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“I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.”
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“No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.”
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“Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.”
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“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
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“A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.”
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“There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.”
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“Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.”
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“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.”
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“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.”
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“Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.”
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“Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.”
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“Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.”
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“Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.”
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“An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.”
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“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
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“We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.”
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“You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.”
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“I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.”
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“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
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“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.”
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“One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.”
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“The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.”
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“When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.”
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“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”
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“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”
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“He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.”
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“To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.”
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“The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.”
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“No one should have to live in fear.”
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“When you're fearful, you stumble.”
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“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”
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“Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?”
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“A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.”
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“By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.”
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“The mark of fear is not easily removed.”
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“I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.”
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“It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.”
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“We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.”
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“What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.”
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“As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.”
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“Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.”
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“Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.”
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“I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.”
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“I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.”
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“There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.”
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“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
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“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
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“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
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“Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.”
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“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
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“Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
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“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”
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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
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“Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.”
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“I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.”
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“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.”
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
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“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
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“A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.”
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“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
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“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
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“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
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“The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!”
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“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”
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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.”
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“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
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“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
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“The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.”
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“Fear doesn't exist in football, especially for Real Madrid.”
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“Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.”
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“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
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“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
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“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
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“I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.”
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“Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.”
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“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
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“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”
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“Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more awareness through the process, and you know what pitfalls to look for as you get ready to transition to the next level.”
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“Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.”
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“Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.”
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“As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.”
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“With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.”
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“Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.”
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“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
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“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
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“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
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“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
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“I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.”
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“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.”
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“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.”
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“This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”
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“If you don't risk, you can't win. I don't fear taking risks.”
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“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
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“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.”
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“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.”
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“Feel the fear, and do it anyway. That's the mentality. Even if you're scared, just do it.”
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“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
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“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”
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“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.”
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“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”
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“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
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“Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.”
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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
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“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
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“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
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“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.”
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“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”
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“Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.”
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“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.”
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“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
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“People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.”
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“Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.”
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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
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“As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.”
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“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.”
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“I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that?”
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“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”
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“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
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“We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.”
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“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
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“The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.”
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“There's no fear when you're having fun.”
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“Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.”
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“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”
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“Fear is the mother of morality.”
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“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
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“He who doesn't fear death dies only once.”
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“Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.”
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“Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.”
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“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.”
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“Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.”
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“My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.”
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“I always say that my biggest fear in a relationship is cheating, and people giving up.”
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“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.”
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“I go to sleep every single night thinking I'm not good enough. I really do. I don't know if that's healthy or not. But I really do have a fear of not being good, and I don't like that.”
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“The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.”
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“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
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“Fear is exciting for me.”
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“I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.”
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“At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.”
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“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.”
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“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.”
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“Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
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“Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.”
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“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
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“I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes - and that is why I am in a hurry.”
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“I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.”
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“Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.”
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“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.”
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“Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.”
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“Realists do not fear the results of their study.”
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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
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“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”
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“Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.”
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“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?”
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“Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.”
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“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”
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“Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.”
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“I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.”
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“I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.”
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“I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.”
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“The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.”
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“I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”
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“The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway.”
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“Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.”
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“If we're not careful, we become that which we most fear.”
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“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”
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“Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.”
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“Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.”
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“Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
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“My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.”
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“Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.”
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“Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.”
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“I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.”
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“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.”
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“Fear is always a good motivator.”
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“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”
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“Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.”
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“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
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“I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.”
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“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”
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“An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.”
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“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.”
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“Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.”
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“Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.”
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“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.”
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“What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.”
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“Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.”
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“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
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“People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.”
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“I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.”
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“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
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“At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there's nothing to fear and hate.”
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“The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.”
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“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
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“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”
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“From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.”
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“I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.”
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“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
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“The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.”
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“Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.”
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“I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.”
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“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
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“From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.”
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“I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.”
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“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”
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“As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.”
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“We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.”
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“When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.”
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“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
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“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.”
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“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
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“Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.”
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“Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what.”
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“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
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“I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.”
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“I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.”
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“Scalded cats fear even cold water.”
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“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
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“It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.”
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“We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.”
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“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”
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“It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.”
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“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.”
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“I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!”
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“Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.”
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“If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease. I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world.”
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“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.”
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“At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.”
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“Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.”
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“War is fear cloaked in courage.”
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“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”
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“Sometimes the point isn't to make people believe a lie - it's to make people fear the liar.”
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“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”
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“You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.”
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“Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.”
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“Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.”
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“I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.”
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“Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.”
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“Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”
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“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
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“We must travel in the direction of our fear.”
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“When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.”
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“The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.”
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“I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.”
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“People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.”
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“The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.”
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“Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.”
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“We are built to be happy, strong and healthy. I fear not to live. We have everything to live up to our dreams. You have everything to achieve that, and in a very short period of time you can get all the tools to manifest who you want to be.”
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“FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.”
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“Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.”
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“Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.”
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“But by reframing the learning process and focusing on the cool end goal, the fear of failure is often taken off the table, and learning just comes more naturally.”
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“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.”
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“I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.”
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“There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.”
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“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
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“The key to change… is to let go of fear.”
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“Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.”
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“I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.”
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“War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.”
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“One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.”
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“God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.”
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“I think when we wake up in the morning, we can choose between fear and love. Every morning. And every morning, if you choose one, that doesn't define you until the end… The way you end your story is important. It's important that we choose love over fear, because love is the answer.”
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“Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.”
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“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
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“Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.”
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“No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.”
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“I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.”
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“Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.”
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“I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.”
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“When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.”
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“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.”
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“Dare to be honest and fear no labor.”
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“The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.”
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“I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.”
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“I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.”
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“Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.”
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“In the ring, I never really knew fear.”
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“The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.”
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“Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.”
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“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.”
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“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”
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“I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.”
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“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.”
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“We have nothing to fear but fear itself… and, of course, the boogieman.”
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“Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.”
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“'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.”
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“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”
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“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”
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“Let all your moments of self-doubt, fear, or disappointment fuel your drive to be great.”
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“What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.”
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“Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.”
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“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.”
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“Fear and monarchy pair nicely. But democracy means you have to work with people you may not like but you must still believe are your equals. And a fearful people never trust the other side.”
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“Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.”
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“For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.”
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“People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'”
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“There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.”
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“We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.”
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“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.”
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“If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.”
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“Those who own much have much to fear.”
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“I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is nothing below me, no Sherpa, no tent, no rope.”
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“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”
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“Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.”
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“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.”
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“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”
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“The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.”
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“Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.”
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“Fear is the foundation of most governments.”
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“'No fear' is a mindset that I stand for. It's the reason why I've got to where I am today.”
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“Fear God and work hard.”
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“Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.”
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“I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.”
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“There is great strength in vulnerability, as it takes courage to push through the fear and share one's true self with others. In music, that vulnerability really speaks to listeners as it connects with their own hearts.”
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“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.”
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“It's the fear of failure that drives all of us at Red Bull.”
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“I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.”
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“I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.”
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“The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.”
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“I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.”
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“If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
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“One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.”
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“To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.”
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“You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.”
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“Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.”
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“If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.”
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“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
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“I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.”
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“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.”
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“Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.”
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“Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.”
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“In this journey, the fear creeps in from time to time. The hint of that is there because there's an unknown factor to everything. That's true in everyone's life. I don't choose to live there; I let it spark me.”
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“Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.”
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“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”
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“We were a gun-free school zone, when one of our schoolmates brought guns to school and took our school hostage. I never want anyone to have to be in that situation, again, and the fear I felt, taught me a very good lesson is our Second Amendment is one of our greatest freedoms we have, and I believe we have to protect it at all costs.”
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“At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.”
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“A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.”
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“Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.”
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“Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.”
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“I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.”
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“The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.”
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“Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.”
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“A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.”
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“The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.”
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“To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.”
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“Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.”
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“A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.”
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“If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.”
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“With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.”
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“It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.”
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“I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.”
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“Action conquers fear.”
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“We only fear what we don't understand, and I hate to be scared.”
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“Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.”
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“There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear.”
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“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”
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“The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.”
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“You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear.”
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“I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.”
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“We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.”
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“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”
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“I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.”
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“Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.”
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“Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.”
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“I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.”
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“The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.”
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“Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.”
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“Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.”
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“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”
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“Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.”
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“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”
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“The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.”
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“Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.”
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“In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.”
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“Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.”
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“Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.”
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“In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.”
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“Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.”
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“Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.”
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“There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.”
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“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.”
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“You have to feel free enough to do what your body is telling you to do. Sometimes, though, the pressure of winning and the fear of defeat limit your performance.”
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“I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life.”
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“There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.”
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“I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.”
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“Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.”
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“A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.”
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“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”
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“The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer.”
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“It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?”
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“Fear the vulture, and the vulture will come. Fear nothing, and you are the vulture.”
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“Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.”
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“If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.”
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“I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.”
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“Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.”
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“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”
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“When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.”
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“I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.”
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“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.”
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“Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.”
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“Fear, to me, is a guiding thing more than anything.”
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“Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.”
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“But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.”
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“Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?”
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“We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.”
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“Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.”
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“To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.”
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“I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.”
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“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”
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“I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!”
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“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”
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“There's, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that's your fear.”
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“We have nothing to fear but fear itself - and monsters.”
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“Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.”
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“Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey.”
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“When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.”
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“There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.”
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“A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.”
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“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”
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“I don't fear nobody, dawg.”
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“I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.”
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“I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.”
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“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.”
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“When you have no fear, the possibilities are endless.”
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“It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.”
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“I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.”
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“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.”
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“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
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“Uncertainty always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.”
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“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”
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“The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.”
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“Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.”
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“Do what you fear most and you control fear.”
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“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
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“Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.”
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“My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.”
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“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
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“You have moments when you sulk, when you crib and cry and feel that, 'why me and why all these things are happening with me.' We are only human. It's about facing your fear and not giving up because you are the only person who will support yourself at the end of the day and if you dont do that than nobody else will.”
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“I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.”
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“Fear nothing; attack everything.”
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“My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.”
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“God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.”
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“Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.”
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“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
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“Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.”
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“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.”
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“One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.”
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“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
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“Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.”
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“Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.”
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“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
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“Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.”
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“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”
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“There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.”
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“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”
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“I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don't feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I'm better.”
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“Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.”
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“Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.”
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“The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.”
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“Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.”
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“It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.”
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“Fear is what makes comedy funny.”
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“There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.”
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“I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.”
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“I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.”
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“You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.”
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“I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.”
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“We fear the arrival of immigrants that we have drawn here with the wealth we stole from them. For much of the rest of the world we must be the focus of bitter amusement, characters in a satire we don't understand. It is British people that don't learn languages, or British history. Britain is the true scrounger, the true criminal.”
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“Great fear is concealed under daring.”
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“Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.”
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“Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.”
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“God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.”
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“Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.”
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“Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.”
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“Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.”
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“TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.”
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“Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.”
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“Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.”
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“Pressure comes from fear. If you start thinking about the result or what might happen if you do something, that's the only time there's pressure.”
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“I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.”
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“Fear has its use but cowardice has none.”
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“He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.”
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“I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?”
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“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.”
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“You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don't fear being judged.”
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“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.”
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“Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.”
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“Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.”
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“Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.”
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“We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”
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“It's all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn't move the game forward - the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please - so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters.”
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“My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.”
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“My brother Steve was always considered the naughty one but I used to drive my parents to despair because I had no fear. Id climb a tree without testing the branches and I was always getting into scrapes.”
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“A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.”
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“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”
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“The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.”
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“African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.”
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“Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.”
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“We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and complacency, which are its shadows and aliases. We accept the things-as-they-are world in which we are comfortable.”
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“Don't fear change - embrace it.”
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“God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.”
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“Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.”
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“Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.”
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“Multiculturalism for any western country is a massive issue. The lack of integration, the increase of crime, violence, and mistrust in society, the segregation created due to mass immigration, these are only the beginning phases of something I fear will almost certainly get more worse and violent.”
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“Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players… they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.”
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“'I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.' - bell hooks”
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“The part that makes you unique is the bit people will like or fear, fall in love with, or try to avoid.”
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“I just want to say, don't be afraid, believe in yourself, whatever comes your way you have to experience it to really know what that is. So if you have too much fear inside you may let go of certain opportunities or chances, so trust in yourself and stick with it.”
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“If you fear and you don't admit it, that's when you're lying to yourself.”
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“I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.”
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“Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.”
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“I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.”
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“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”
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“Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.”
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“Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.”
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“Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.”
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“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.”
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“I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.”
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“Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.”
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“I'm kind of claustrophobic… It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can't get out.”
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
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“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”
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“What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.”
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“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”
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“Fear… is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.”
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“My sister travels with me, and she's the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.”
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“The fear of failing… not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.”
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“I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.”
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“The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.”
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“Fear has many faces.”
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“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
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“Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.”
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“If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.”
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“Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.”
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“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
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“Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.”
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“I don't fear being outspoken. The only thing I fear is losing my sense of integrity or losing sight of the values on which I guide my life. So I don't think it's particularly brave or unusual for me to speak out.”
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“What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.”
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“To good and true love fear is forever affixed.”
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“I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there's no pressure - no one's telling me to do it. So if something seems scary, I don't have any obligation to do it. I can prepare further or just walk away entirely.”
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“That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.”
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“Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.”
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“Hard work eliminates fear. That's how I think.”
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“I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.”
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“Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.”
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“It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.”
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“I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.”
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“Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.”
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“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”
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“Fear of failure is a great thing. It pushes you past your comfort levels.”
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“I had a fear of heights but I overcame that while shooting for 'Luck.' I jumped from a height of 2,000 feet for one shot.”
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“There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.”
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“Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic spaces, because at least then you know your limits.”
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“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
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“Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.”
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“Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?”
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“Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.”
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“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.”
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“I found that the things I am afraid of most are things for which there are no obvious remedies. Like, what do you do with a fear of death? You either come to terms with it or you don't, but there's no solving it.”
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“Without hesitation, I'm voting Emmanuel Macron. Everything about the campaign of Marine Le Pen, despite its dressing of sovereignty, exudes fear and weakness.”
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“With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.”
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“War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.”
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“I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.”
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“Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.”
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“It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.”
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“Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.”
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“A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bite us, afraid we'll get fat, afraid someone will leave us. Once you lose fear, life becomes sweeter, and that happens as you get older. I'm sure by the time I'm 80, I'll be able to do absolutely anything!”
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“He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.”
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“People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.”
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“We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.”
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“I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.”
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“In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.”
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“There's bigger threats in my neighborhood than LeBron James, so I have no fear whatsoever of LeBron.”
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“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”
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“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
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“Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.”
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“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
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“Silence is the residue of fear.”
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“So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'”
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“Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.”
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“It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.”
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“An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.”
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“I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.”
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“Stalking brings fear, uncertainty, and violence into the lives of victims. Public awareness is a crucial step forward in protecting women and men from stalking and intimate partner violence.”
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“So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.”
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“I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.”
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“Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer when I was a lad. From then on, he lived in fear that death was just around the corner, and he set about programming me to work hard and bring in some cash.”
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“Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.”
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“Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.”
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“I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.”
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“The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.”
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“Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.”
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“Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.”
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“When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.”
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“I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.”
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“The moment you feel yourself hesitate on something you know you should do, count 5-4-3-2-1 to activate your prefrontal cortex and interrupt the habit of overthinking, self-doubt, and fear.”
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“Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.”
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“You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a 'jazz musician' - it's a big responsibility.”
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“I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.”
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“I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.”
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“I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.”
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“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.”
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“What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.”
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“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.”
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“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.”
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“There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.”
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“It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!”
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“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.”
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“With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.”
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“Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.”
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“My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.”
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“It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.”
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“The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.”
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“Fear is not something we feel at Liverpool.”
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“Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.”
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“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
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“Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.”
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“I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.”
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“People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.”
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“Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.”
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“Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.”
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“If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.”
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“I don't fear anybody… at all.”
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“In whosever presence you find peace of mind, devoid of fear, only that person can be your guru.”
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“Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.”
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“I think it's important to live your life the way you want to live it. Don't live your life in fear.”
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“I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.”
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“I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.”
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“To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.”
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“Unlike accredited zoos like the Bronx Zoo, San Diego Zoo, the Los Angeles Zoo, these are private menageries, and these people are frightened and there is an existential fear that they are going to be shut down by the government, by PETA, by HSUS, by animal rights groups. So they, generally, are very guarded.”
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“If I had to say something to Americans, being afraid and having fear, it's okay to be fearful because that will make you strong; being afraid will shut you down.”
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“These poets (fans of whatever) should be contacting other young poets on their way - not those who have made it, who sit on a star and then have plenty of problems: usually no money, usually the fear their own writing is going down the sink hole.”
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“Art is the easiest thing in my life, and that's ironic. It doesn't mean I've worked little on it, but it's the only thing I never had to… I have no fear. I could take risks.”
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“I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.”
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“When I started wearing makeup, my parents….. were like, 'You're absolutely not wearing it out of the house.' At first, I thought they were not happy with me wearing it, but later on, I realized it was out of fear of me getting bullied and ridiculed in school.”
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“I love Newark, but it was easy to get caught up in the wrong situation. You know, when you come from very humble beginnings, you always have that fear that everything could go away at any moment.”
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“Our adversaries no long fear us, and our enemies are plotting against us.”
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“When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.”
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“The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.”
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“We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.”
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“I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.”
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“You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.”
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“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”
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“If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.”
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“A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.”
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“Play with no fear. Just enjoy the game.”
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“Embrace your fear. Imagine what you're most afraid of, touch it and hold it so that you rob it of its power.”
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“It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.”
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“Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally.”
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“The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.”
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“My mere existence as a member of Congress as a Palestinian causes a lot of fear, because I'm here as a human being, as an American, that is saying to the world that we exist.”
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“I listen to my political rivals sometimes with fear and trembling, sometimes with awe, sometimes with near panic, but always with a curiosity of nuances, curiosity for the language, curiosity for the story behind the 'impossible' position.”
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“My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.”
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“Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.”
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“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
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“Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.”
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“Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.”
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“We are all musicians, and we're not really good musicians. But we have this gracious gift that has been bestowed on us, and we don't want to disappoint. So I guess our biggest fear would be, just giving up.”
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“If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.”
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“My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.”
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“I think people who become compulsive about fitness or eating right, a lot of the time it's out of fear that they're going to lose control or that they're not good enough, so I think anything done out of fear or motivated by fear is often unhealthy.”
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“People that have a lot of fear or over-rationalize things will never push themselves far enough.”
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“The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.”
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“We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.”
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“I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.”
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“I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.”
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“My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.”
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“The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.”
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“The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.”
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“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
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“You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.”
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“When desire dies, fear is born.”
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“Fear is the passion of slaves.”
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“Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.”
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“When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.”
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“My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.”
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“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”
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“To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.”
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“The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.”
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“It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.”
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“I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.”
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“Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.”
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“I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.”
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“All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.”
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“Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.”
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“No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.”
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“Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.”
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“Having the ability to walk to the grocery store, ride my bike miles away to a friend's house, and spend most of the day unsupervised gave me confidence in myself. But I don't give my daughter that same freedom, and I never have, because I fear the possible repercussions.”
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“Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.”
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“I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It's like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.”
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“Hope and fear cannot alter the season.”
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“There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.”
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“I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.”
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“I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.”
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“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.”
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“We need to be realistic. There is very little we can do now to stop the ice from disappearing from the North Pole in the summer. And we probably cannot prevent the melting of the permafrost and the resulting release of methane. In addition, I fear that we may be too late to help the oceans maintain their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.”
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“It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”
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“He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.”
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“I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.”
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“Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.”
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“It's amazing to dwell in the world of fantasy and fear.”
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“I think one of the difficult things for me was that I was putting on a brave face for my loved ones; they were putting on a brave face for me. But what got lost in that was the ability to talk about our fear.”
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“Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.”
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“With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'”
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“It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.”
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“Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.”
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“What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.”
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“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”
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“The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.”
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“In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality, and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear.”
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“My greatest fear in the state of Maine: newspapers. I'm not a fan of newspapers.”
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“Don't be afraid to make things up. Never fear being exposed as a fraud. Experts make things up all the time. They're qualified to.”
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“We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.”
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“I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.”
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“When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.”
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“Failure worries me; nobody wants to fail. There is a fear that one day, films will not come my way, or if someone doesn't watch your film, that is a worrying point. It is unpredictable in the industry.”
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“You have to fear the wounded animal.”
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“I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.”
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“The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.”
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“I'm not afraid of flying; I just fear I'm going to die. I think I'm - vulnerable. I admit it. I don't fly. I got claustrophobia. I don't go in high buildings. I don't do those things. I'm just myself, whatever that is.”
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“It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.”
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“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”
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“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.”
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“Every time I go out to perform, believe me. You never lose that fear of, 'I hope I do it right. I hope I don't fall flat on my face. I hope this will be good for them.'”
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“All different religions have laws based on fear, the fear of going to hell.”
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“The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.”
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“The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.”
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“Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer.”
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“Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'”
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“There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.”
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“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.”
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“Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.”
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“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
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“Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.”
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“I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.”
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“Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.”
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“Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.”
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“Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.”
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“See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.”
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“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”
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“The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.”
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“My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.”
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“If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?”
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“Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.”
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“My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'”
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“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
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“I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.”
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“Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.”
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“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.”
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“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”
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“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”
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“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”
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“Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.”
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“Fear and hope are alike underneath.”
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“It's such a joy to be able to have friendships free from worry. It's so lovely to live without fear.”
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“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.”
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“The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.”
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“Fear is the foundation of safety.”
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“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.”
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“The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.”
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“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.”
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“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.”
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“We all have fear in life. I don't let that fear control me. I control it, manage it, use it as a positive.”
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“I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.”
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“I'm not pugnacious or argumentative. I'd probably feel fear going into a pub in the Outback.”
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“Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.”
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“Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.”
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“One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear of the future. If there wasn't, none of the religions could invoke this important thing - that science has no evidence of, by the way - called free will.”
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“I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.”
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“When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.”
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“Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.”
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“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”
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“There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.”
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“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”
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“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”
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“I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.”
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“The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.”
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“Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.”
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“Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.”
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“I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.”
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“The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.”
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“There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.”
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“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”
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“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.”
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“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.”
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“Fear leads to more fear, and trust leads to more trust.”
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“There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.”
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“Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.”
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“The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.”
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“Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.”
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“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.”
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“You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.”
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“The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.”
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“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”
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“Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.”
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“We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.”
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“For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.”
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“I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.”
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“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
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“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.”
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“The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!”
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“Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.”
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“You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.”
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“Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.”
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“Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.”
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“Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.”
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“We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.”
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“Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.”
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“Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.”
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“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”
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“I delight in what I fear.”
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“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.”
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“Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.”
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“The media is complicit in fear mongering.”
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“Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.”
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“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
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“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
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“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”
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“The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.”
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“The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.”
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“We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.”
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“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.”
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“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”
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“God helps those who fear Him.”
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“My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.”
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“A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.”
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“I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.'”
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.”
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“Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?”
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“The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.”
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“Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.”
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“You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to… richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.”
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“I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.”
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“It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.”
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“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”
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“Like any other entertainment medium, we must create an emotional response in order to succeed. Laughter, fear, joy, affection, surprise, and - most of all - accomplishment. In the end, triggering these feelings from our players is the true judgment of our work. This is the bottom line measurement of success.”
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“Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.”
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“You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”
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“Whoever said having children makes a comedian safer and less dark is an idiot. Having a baby has filled my whole life with fear, and totally destroyed all illusion that the world is safe or fair.”
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“You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.”
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“Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.”
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“My greatest fear: repetition.”
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“A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.”
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“Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.”
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“By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.”
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“When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.”
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“'When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.' - bell hooks”
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“Fear is a great signal. It's like a pain signal. Hey, look at me, look at me. Get your focus right over here, at the pain.”
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“I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes the possibility either of fear or doubt.”
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“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.”
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“There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.”
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“Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.”
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“I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.”
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“People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.”
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“The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.”
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“Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.”
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“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”
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“The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.”
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“Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.”
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“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”
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“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”
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“When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.”
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“Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.”
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“Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.”
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“I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.”
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“I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous…' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.”
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“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
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“I do recall one moment when I went to India by myself. I was paralyzed with fear to travel alone, but I had this intuitive hint that I had to do it. It was transformative and beautiful.”
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“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
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“We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.”
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“I don't have any fear of working with Samsung because I'm not gonna let them put a phone on my forehead; that's just never gonna happen.”
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“Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.”
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“Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.”
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“I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.”
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“Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.”
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“It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.”
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“Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.”
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“We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.”
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“It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.”
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“I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”
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“Where fear is, happiness is not.”
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“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
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“Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.”
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“The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.”
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“For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.”
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“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”
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“Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.”
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“Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.”
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“When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.”
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“That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.”
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“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.”
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“Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.”
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“We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.”
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“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”
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“The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.”
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“Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.”
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“The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.”
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“I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect.”
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“We have fear as soon as we are born, we are born into a state of physical helplessness.”
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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
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“There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.”
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“Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.”
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“Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”
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“Yes, an individual could be electronically stimulated to fear, anger, or euphoria from a distance. However, the procedure is complicated, not always accurate, and far too tedious and expensive as a method for taking over control of the world.”
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“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”
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“The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.”
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“Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.”
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“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.”
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“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”
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“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”
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“Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.”
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“One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.”
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“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”