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Fear Quotes
"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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"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."
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"Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure."
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"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
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"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."
Fear,
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"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"
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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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"In the world of lovers, there is no 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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"What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none."
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"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed."
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"I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence to some, but to my Satisfaction."
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"Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day."
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"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."
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"The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty."
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"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear."
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"I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities."
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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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"Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog."
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"I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful."
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"I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard."
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"I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey."
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"The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff."
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"Fear of failure has always been my best motivator."
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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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"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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"I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused."
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"Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't."
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"It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers."
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