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Fear Quotes
"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
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"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
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"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
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"Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished."
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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."
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"To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway."
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"I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that."
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"Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country."
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"And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece of rebar lying around, and I knew with sudden certainty that these guys were going to kill me right here on this stupid sidewalk, for nothing, without even the reason of knowing my name or hating my politics. They were just going to kill me because they needed to kill something, and I was handy. At least zombies would have had a reason."
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"That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo."
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"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."
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"Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone."
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"There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them."
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"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
Fear,
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"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."
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"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy."
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"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."
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"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself."
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"The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah."
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"But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear."
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"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
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"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."
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"To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone."
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"Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!"
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"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."
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"What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out."
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"I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred."
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"Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New."
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