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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Fear is exciting for me."
Ayrton Senna
"Fear is exciting for me."
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"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
Miles Davis
"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Americans have discovered fear."
Jose Saramago
"Americans have discovered fear."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Realists do not fear the results of their study."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Realists do not fear the results of their study."
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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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"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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"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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"In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force."
Robert Vaughn
"In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force."
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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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"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
Renata Adler
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
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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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"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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"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
Florence Nightingale
"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
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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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"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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"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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"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."
Virgil
"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."
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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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"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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"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 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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"To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone."
David Joseph Schwartz
"To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone."
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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."
Harry S. Truman
"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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"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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"Your children don't have to fear you to respect you."
Michael Madsen
"Your children don't have to fear you to respect you."
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"Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope."
Andrew von Eschenbach
"Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope."
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"The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling."
Lou Henry Hoover
"The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling."
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"The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear."
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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."
Marianne Williamson
"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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