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Fear Quotes
"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom."
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"It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man."
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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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"Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point."
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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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"We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it."
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"We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely."
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"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."
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"To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone."
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"So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear."
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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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"I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy."
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"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us."
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"Those who fear life are already three parts dead."
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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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"His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed up. It was not only warmed up now, it was hot and running on full choke. That there was no sense at all in what he was thinking made not a whit of difference in the dark. In the dark, rationality seemed stupid and logic a dream. In the dark he thought with his skin."
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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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"You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself."
Fear,
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"There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect."
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"Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre."
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"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts."
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"But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with."
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"I used to fear their deaths--the car! the dog! the sea! the germ!--until I realized it need never be a problem: on the trolley, on the way to the mortuary, I would put my hands into their ribs and take their hearts and swallow them, and give birth to them again, so that they would never, ever end."
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"I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel."
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"If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all."
Fear,
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"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world."
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"When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand."
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