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Fear Quotes
"I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher."
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"In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications."
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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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"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."
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"I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents."
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"At least not until the Terror took hold of him. Not until he saw, night after night, a little boat being rowed across the river. Not until he saw it return at dawn. Not until he saw what his Untouchable son had touched. More than touched.Enter.Loved."
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"There was a strange but universal understanding among women. On some level all women knew, they all understood, the fear of being outnumbered, of being helpless. It throbbed in their chests when they thought about the times they left stores and were followed. The knocks on their car windows as they were sitting alone at red lights, and strangers asking for rides. Having too much to drink and losing their ability to be forceful enough to just say no. Smiling at strange men coming on to them, not wanting to hurt their feelings, not wanting to make a scene. All women remembered these things, even if they had never happened to them personally. It was a part of their collective unconscious."
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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."
Fear,
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"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear."
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"States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all."
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"There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear."
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"The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised."
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"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."
Fear,
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"It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else."
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"We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it."
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"Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight."
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"A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don't let fear turn possibility into certainty."
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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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"Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something."
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"How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?"
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"I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused."
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"Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering."
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"We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world."
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"What are you most scared of? she asked and I wished she hadn't. I didn't like admitting it.'I'm scared of dying alone."
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"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."
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"Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't."
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"Even a child can offer ideas for improvement."
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"Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson."
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"Mom used to tell us stories of these bogeymen when we were kids, and Lizzy would crawl into my bed so she could fall asleep. Stories of the monsters who forced us underground, and when the force field faltered, would snatch us from our homes."
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