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"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."
Carly Simon
"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."
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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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"Dare to be honest and fear no labor."
Robert Burns
"Dare to be honest and fear no labor."
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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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"Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New."
Benjamin Whichcote
"Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New."
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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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"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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"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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"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."
Saint Teresa of Avila
"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him."
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"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
Salvador Dali
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."
Baruch Spinoza
"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
Camille Claudel
"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
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"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
Cyril Connolly
"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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"Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
David Ben Gurion
"Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
George S. Patton
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
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"I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien."
Mickey Spillane
"I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien."
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"Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance."
Arnold H. Glasow
"Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance."
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"I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale."
Jo Bonner
"I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale."
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"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."
Ben Jonson
"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."
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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."
Sandra Day O'Connor
"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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"Fear is the highest fence."
Dudley Nichols
"Fear is the highest fence."
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"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."
Dorothy Thompson
"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."
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"I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability."
Teri Hatcher
"I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability."
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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."
Reese Witherspoon
"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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"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen."
Herodotus
"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen."
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"Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back."
Stephen King
"Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back."
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"No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service."
Christopher Columbus
"No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service."
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"The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you."
Linda Ronstadt
"The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you."
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"I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself."
Beth Orton
"I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself."
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"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."
John Calvin
"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness."
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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."
Ron Chernow
"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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"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."
Sammy Davis, Jr.
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."
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"Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want."
Jeffrey Sachs
"Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want."
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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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."
Peter McWilliams
"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."
Mary Tyler Moore
"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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"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."
Charles de Montesquieu
"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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"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
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"When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice."
Toni Morrison
"When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice."
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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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"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
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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."
Rachel Caine
"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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"My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them."
Terry Pratchett
"My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them."
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"Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally I have no hopes at all, and wish I was safe back at home."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally I have no hopes at all, and wish I was safe back at home."
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"There is nothing in this world that I fear to say."
Dmitri Mendeleev
"There is nothing in this world that I fear to say."
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"Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them."
William Henry Hudson
"Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them."
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"Fear created the first gods in the world."
Caecilius Statius
"Fear created the first gods in the world."
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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."
John Mortimer
"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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"I have always been afraid of banks."
Andrew Jackson
"I have always been afraid of banks."
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