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"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
Aristotle
"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
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"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world."
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world."
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"Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day."
Marcus Valerius Martial
"Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day."
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"How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear."
Shirin Ebadi
"How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear."
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"Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation."
Bashar al-Assad
"Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation."
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"Realists do not fear the results of their study."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Realists do not fear the results of their study."
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"Fear is exciting for me."
Ayrton Senna
"Fear is exciting for me."
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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."
Pliny the Elder
"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 wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause."
Donald Cargill
"I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause."
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"Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful."
Timothy Findley
"Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful."
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"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
Miles Davis
"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
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"Americans have discovered fear."
Jose Saramago
"Americans have discovered fear."
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"Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives."
Ivo Andric
"Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives."
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"Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness."
Indra Devi
"Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness."
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"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."
Emile M. Cioran
"Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires."
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"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
Thomas Jefferson
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
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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."
King Hussein
"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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"The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear."
Harriet Ann Jacobs
"The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear."
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"There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak."
Ayn Rand
"There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak."
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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."
Nadia Comaneci
"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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"Hope and fear cannot alter the season."
Chogyam Trungpa
"Hope and fear cannot alter the season."
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"As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I'm afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I'm afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet."
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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."
Socrates
"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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"Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush."
Edward Kennedy
"Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush."
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"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
Bernard Law Montgomery
"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
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"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Alexander Pope
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
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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."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"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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"Fear is the foundation of safety."
Tertullian
"Fear is the foundation of safety."
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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."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"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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"In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force."
Robert Vaughn
"In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force."
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"A fearless person lives fully, a fearful person just exists."
Osho
"A fearless person lives fully, a fearful person just exists."
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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."
Bobby Bowden
"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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"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
Renata Adler
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
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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?"
Stevie Nicks
"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 may come true that which one is afraid of."
Viktor E. Frankl
"Fear may come true that which one is afraid of."
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"We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side."
Tahar Ben Jelloun
"We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side."
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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 no to be feared."
David Ben Gurion
"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 no to be feared."
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"The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah."
Abu Bakr
"The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah."
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"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives."
Gary Busey
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives."
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"I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me."
Bram Fischer
"I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me."
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"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
Aleister Crowley
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
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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."
William Jennings Bryan
"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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"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."
George Orwell
"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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"Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World."
Oliver Stone
"Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World."
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"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
Christian Nestell Bovee
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
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"Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance."
Arnold H. Glasow
"Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance."
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"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
W. Clement Stone
"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."
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"Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all."
Algernon Charles Swinburne
"Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all."
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"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
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"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
Salvador Dali
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
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