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Fear Quotes
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."
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"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."
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"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts."
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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."
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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."
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"We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen."
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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."
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"To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God."
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"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."
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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."
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"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."
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"Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead."
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"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
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"Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day."
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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."
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"I am pain stricken to say that, various "educational institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom" as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom."
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"I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability."
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"I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether."
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"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."
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"Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects."
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"We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less."
Fear,
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"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
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"Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly."
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"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly."
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"Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit."
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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
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"Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread."
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"Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear."
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"My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer."
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"Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived."
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