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"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."
F. H. Bradley
"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."
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"One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you."
Samuel Dash
"One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you."
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"What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths."
J. G. Ballard
"What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths."
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"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause."
Plutarch
"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause."
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"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."
Gerald Brenan
"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."
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"If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared."
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
"If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared."
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"It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again."
W. Averell Harriman
"It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again."
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"Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility."
William McFee
"Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility."
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"Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise."
Henry A. Wallace
"Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise."
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"In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves."
Laurie Halse Anderson
"In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves."
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"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
Babe Ruth
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
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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."
Clara Barton
"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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"Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer."
Morihei Ueshiba
"Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer."
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"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."
Liza Minnelli
"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."
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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
Joan Didion
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
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"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."
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"Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear."
Corrie Ten Boom
"Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear."
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"My greatest fear: repetition."
Max Frisch
"My greatest fear: repetition."
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"I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer."
Paul Gillmor
"I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer."
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"There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time."
Haruki Murakami
"There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time."
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"The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you."
Linda Ronstadt
"The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you."
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"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it."
Lee Tergesen
"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it."
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"I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear."
Calvin Klein
"I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear."
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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."
Sylvester Stallone
"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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"Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear."
Mary C. Jones
"Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear."
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"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."
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"Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary."
Peter Straub
"Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary."
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"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."
David Hume
"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."
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"If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves."
Bryant McGill
"If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves."
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"She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo."
Ellen Hopkins
"She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo."
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"We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer."
Alan Autry
"We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer."
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"Do not fear fear."
L. M. Heroux
"Do not fear fear."
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"Use fear as a counselor not a captor."
Todd Stocker
"Use fear as a counselor not a captor."
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"She lived in fear of ifonic endings."
Anne Lamott
"She lived in fear of ifonic endings."
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"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."
Joyce Maynard
"The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval."
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"New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans."
Billy Tauzin
"New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans."
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"Your children don't have to fear you to respect you."
Michael Madsen
"Your children don't have to fear you to respect you."
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"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."
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"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."
Gijs de Vries
"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."
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"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation."
Vannevar Bush
"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation."
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"Action conquers fear."
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"Action conquers fear."
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"I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful."
Isabelle Adjani
"I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful."
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"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."
Virgil
"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."
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"Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side."
Sam Shepard
"Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side."
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"Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale."
Will Durst
"Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale."
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"One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour."
Colin Baker
"One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour."
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"Alone.Yes,that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."
Stephen King
"Alone.Yes,that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."
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"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."
William Cowper
"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."
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"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
Stendhal
"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
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"Let us banish fear."
Carter G. Woodson
"Let us banish fear."
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