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"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."
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"If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it."
Penelope Spheeris
"If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it."
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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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"Who sows fear, reaps weapons."
Friedrich Durrenmatt
"Who sows fear, reaps weapons."
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"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
Edmund Burke
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
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"She screamed like an assassin was driving a knife into her stomach.She screamed like a thousand birds were pecking at her flesh.She screamed like the palace was burning down around her."
Marissa Meyer
"She screamed like an assassin was driving a knife into her stomach.She screamed like a thousand birds were pecking at her flesh.She screamed like the palace was burning down around her."
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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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"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!"
Peter Cushing
"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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"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."
Amelia Barr
"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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"Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day."
Brendan Francis
"Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day."
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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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"When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape."
Charisma Carpenter
"When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape."
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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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"Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread."
Norman Ralph Augustine
"Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread."
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"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."
Virgil
"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."
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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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"I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years."
Lee Trevino
"I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years."
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"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."
Chanakya
"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."
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"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
Isoroku Yamamoto
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
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"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."
Edvard Munch
"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."
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"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
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"We're so afraid of being hurt that we become the abuser first."
Alaric Hutchinson
"We're so afraid of being hurt that we become the abuser first."
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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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"There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?"
Barbara Ehrenreich
"There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?"
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"For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal."
Stephen King
"For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal."
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"To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God."
Criss Jami
"To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God."
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"Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear."
Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear."
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"I have always been afraid of banks."
Andrew Jackson
"I have always been afraid of banks."
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"I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills."
Peter Mandelson
"I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills."
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"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."
Baruch Spinoza
"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."
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"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
Saul Bellow
"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
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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 is the lengthened shadow of ignorance."
Arnold H. Glasow
"Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance."
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"Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects."
Michael O'Donoghue
"Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects."
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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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"Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you."
Paul Tsongas
"Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you."
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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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"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
Aleister Crowley
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
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"Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality."
Vironika Tugaleva
"Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality."
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"What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none."
Anne Rice
"What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none."
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"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
John Adams
"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
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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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"My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer."
Kylie Bax
"My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer."
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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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"Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual."
Bram Stoker
"Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual."
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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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"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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"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."
Charles Caleb Colton
"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."
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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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