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"The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear."
Karl Shapiro
"The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear."
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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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"While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us."
Audre Lorde
"While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us."
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"Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be."
Terry Pratchett
"Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be."
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"Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if i were ever in the verge of death-plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp."
Rick Riordan
"Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if i were ever in the verge of death-plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp."
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"My only fear is the unknown."
David Blaine
"My only fear is the unknown."
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"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Alexander Pope
"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
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"And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us."
Ian Rush
"And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us."
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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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"As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared the future. He would give this reply: 'Mr. Secretary-General, it is the past which scares the bejesus out of me."
Kurt Vonnegut
"As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared the future. He would give this reply: 'Mr. Secretary-General, it is the past which scares the bejesus out of me."
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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."
H. P. Lovecraft
"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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"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
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"The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them."
Tahereh Mafi
"The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them."
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"True nobility is exempt from fear."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"True nobility is exempt from fear."
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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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"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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"In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned."
Natan Sharansky
"In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned."
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"They hate whom they fear."
Quintus Ennius
"They hate whom they fear."
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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."
Albert Einstein
"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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"Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating."
Andrew Cohen
"Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating."
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"But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless."
Charlaine Harris
"But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless."
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"There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause."
Herbert Marshall
"There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause."
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"Fear always springs from ignorance."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fear always springs from ignorance."
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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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"My father, my father, and dost thou not hearThe words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"My father, my father, and dost thou not hearThe words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves."
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"We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number."
Nathaniel Smith
"We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number."
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"I try not to laugh too loud, afraid a bark-like noise will be mistaken by any great whites lurking in the area as the distress call of a juvenile seal."
Elle Lothlorien
"I try not to laugh too loud, afraid a bark-like noise will be mistaken by any great whites lurking in the area as the distress call of a juvenile seal."
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"And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the screen. There's nothing like watching Anaconda with your best friend or lying in bed next to your mother reading Roald Dahl, because that way you get to explore dark stuff safely. You get to laugh with it, to step out on the vampire's dance floor and take him for a spin, and then step back into your life. When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you."
Anne Lamott
"And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the screen. There's nothing like watching Anaconda with your best friend or lying in bed next to your mother reading Roald Dahl, because that way you get to explore dark stuff safely. You get to laugh with it, to step out on the vampire's dance floor and take him for a spin, and then step back into your life. When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you."
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"Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet."
Dan Groat
"Fear was the hand of the devil holding a scalding hot branding iron and touching your brain and your stomach and yelling at you to run with leaden feet."
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"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
Haruki Murakami
"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
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"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."
Paulo Coelho
"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."
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"Fear and hope are alike underneath."
Richard Ford
"Fear and hope are alike underneath."
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"FEAR stands for fuck everything and run."
Stephen King
"FEAR stands for fuck everything and run."
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"When it comes to terror, reality's got nothing on the power of the imagination."
Fredrik Backman
"When it comes to terror, reality's got nothing on the power of the imagination."
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"Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control."
Virginia C. Andrews
"Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control."
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"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."
Thomas Carlyle
"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."
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"It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves."
Ellen Hopkins
"It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves."
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"A fear of the unknown: what was that called?Worse yet: a fear of the known."
Joyce Carol Oates
"A fear of the unknown: what was that called?Worse yet: a fear of the known."
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"I think-the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center."
Jorge Luis Borges
"I think-the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center."
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"I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them."
Neal Shusterman
"I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them."
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"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."
Abraham Cowley
"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."
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"FEAR is always about the FUTURE, felt in the PRESENT based on the PAST!"
Harrish Sairaman
"FEAR is always about the FUTURE, felt in the PRESENT based on the PAST!"
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"I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together."
Emily Bronte
"I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together."
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"You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I'm going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?"
Stephen King
"You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I'm going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?"
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"Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore."
Gillian Flynn
"Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore."
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"My heart's a dance of fear."
Aeschylus
"My heart's a dance of fear."
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"No one is born with fear: we learn it, create it, and perpetuate it. Therefore, fear's biggest secret is we also control it."
Ken Poirot
"No one is born with fear: we learn it, create it, and perpetuate it. Therefore, fear's biggest secret is we also control it."
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"Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do."
Bertrand Russell
"Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do."
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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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"To him who is in fear everything rustles."
Sophocles
"To him who is in fear everything rustles."
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