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"Fear stagnation, embrace change."
Debasish Mridha
"Fear stagnation, embrace change."
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"The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage."
Terence Fisher
"The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage."
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"We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii."
Marc Morial
"We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii."
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"I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)"
Haruki Murakami
"I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)"
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"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."
Moses Mendelssohn
"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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"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."
Gijs de Vries
"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."
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"There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time."
Haruki Murakami
"There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time."
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"The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery."
Greg Rusedski
"The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery."
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"Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline."
Philip Roth
"Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline."
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
John B. S. Haldane
"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
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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."
Bertrand Russell
"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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"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."
Susan Sontag
"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."
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"States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all."
John Bruton
"States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all."
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"In spite of your fear, do what you have to do."
Chin-Ning Chu
"In spite of your fear, do what you have to do."
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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."
Abraham Maslow
"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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"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."
Jimmy Carter
"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."
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"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."
Mark Twain
"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."
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"The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear."
Herb Elliott
"The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear."
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"I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side."
Katharine Butler Hathaway
"I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side."
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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."
Thomas Jefferson
"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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"Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based."
Deepak Chopra
"Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based."
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"Fear comes from the lack of knowledge and a state of ignorance. The best remedy for fear is to gain knowledge."
Debasish Mridha
"Fear comes from the lack of knowledge and a state of ignorance. The best remedy for fear is to gain knowledge."
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."
Sun Tzu
"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."
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"The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him."
Joanna Southcott
"The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him."
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"Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much."
Bill Owens
"Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much."
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"In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it."
John J. Sweeney
"In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it."
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"She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo."
Ellen Hopkins
"She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo."
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"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
Stephen King
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
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"It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man."
Georges Bernanos
"It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man."
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"When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer."
Asne Seierstad
"When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer."
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"Because something inside of my heart is ripping apart and it feels like fear, it tastes like panic and anxiety and desperation and I don't know how to understand th image in front of me. I don't want to see Warner like this. I don't want to think of him as anything other than a monster.This isn't right."
Tahereh Mafi
"Because something inside of my heart is ripping apart and it feels like fear, it tastes like panic and anxiety and desperation and I don't know how to understand th image in front of me. I don't want to see Warner like this. I don't want to think of him as anything other than a monster.This isn't right."
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"There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best."
Rickie Lee Jones
"There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best."
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"Fear always springs from ignorance."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fear always springs from ignorance."
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"The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance."
Steve Perry
"The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance."
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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."
Gary Ryan Blair
"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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"Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally."
Bob Weinstein
"Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally."
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"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear."
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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."
Alexander Alekhine
"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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"He whom many fear, has himself many to fear."
Publilius Syrus
"He whom many fear, has himself many to fear."
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"I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed."
Susannah McCorkle
"I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed."
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"But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself."
Russell Hoban
"But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself."
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"I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten."
Victor Salva
"I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten."
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"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them."
Robert Jarvik
"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them."
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"I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it."
Dean Koontz
"I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it."
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"Let us banish fear."
Carter G. Woodson
"Let us banish fear."
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"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared."
Barack Obama
"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared."
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"Fear sees, even when eyes are closed."
Wayne Gerard Trotman
"Fear sees, even when eyes are closed."
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"I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial."
Eddie Slovik
"I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial."
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"Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue."
Diane Abbott
"Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue."
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"Everyone knew that bugs traveled in packs. Only the stupid ones got caught. The smart ones lay in wait for her to go to sleep so they could attack."
Jill Shalvis
"Everyone knew that bugs traveled in packs. Only the stupid ones got caught. The smart ones lay in wait for her to go to sleep so they could attack."
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