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Fear Quotes
"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
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"There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers."
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"Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility."
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"Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it."
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"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."
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"If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves."
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"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom."
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"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."
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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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"Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead."
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"But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear."
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"Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country."
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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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"Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death."
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"I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself."
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"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure."
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"The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others."
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"Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something."
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"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation."
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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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"And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals."
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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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"In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties."
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"That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment."
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"I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs."
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"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."
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"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."
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"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."
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"Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing."
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"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."
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"Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight."
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