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"Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from."
Peter McWilliams
"Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from."
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"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."
Dorothy Thompson
"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."
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"Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive."
Kathy Acker
"Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive."
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"The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear."
Herb Elliott
"The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear."
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"I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside."
Barry Mann
"I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside."
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"I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien."
Mickey Spillane
"I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien."
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"He whom many fear, has himself many to fear."
Publilius Syrus
"He whom many fear, has himself many to fear."
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"But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure."
Cliff Richard
"But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure."
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"I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side."
Katharine Butler Hathaway
"I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side."
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"The strongest passion is fear."
Jean de La Fontaine
"The strongest passion is fear."
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"Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall."
Salman Rushdie
"Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall."
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"Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based."
Deepak Chopra
"Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based."
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"You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman."
Charlize Theron
"You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman."
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"I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person."
Jack Nicholson
"I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person."
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"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest."
Edmund Waller
"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest."
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"Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson."
Roger Craig
"Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson."
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"We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands."
Robert Toombs
"We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands."
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"My greatest fear is to be misunderstood."
Elliott Gould
"My greatest fear is to be misunderstood."
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"Fear comes from the lack of knowledge and a state of ignorance. The best remedy for fear is to gain knowledge."
Debasish Mridha
"Fear comes from the lack of knowledge and a state of ignorance. The best remedy for fear is to gain knowledge."
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"To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway."
Peter McWilliams
"To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway."
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"I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks."
Bob Odenkirk
"I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks."
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"Who sows fear, reaps weapons."
Friedrich Durrenmatt
"Who sows fear, reaps weapons."
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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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"I have a fear of being boring."
Christian Bale
"I have a fear of being boring."
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"No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice."
C. S. Lewis
"No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice."
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"The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him."
Joanna Southcott
"The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him."
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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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"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder."
Richard Bach
"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder."
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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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"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 hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free."
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"Of all the hazards, fear is the worst."
Sam Snead
"Of all the hazards, fear is the worst."
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"The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness."
Larry Williams
"The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness."
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"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
Edmund Burke
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
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"Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering."
Fred Barnes
"Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering."
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"I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear."
Margot Kidder
"I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear."
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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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"We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world."
Lillian Russell
"We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world."
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"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
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"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
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"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."
Marian Anderson
"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."
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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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"The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are."
Edward Koch
"The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are."
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"With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand."
Federico Garcia Lorca
"With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand."
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"Fear is excitement without breath."
Robert Heller
"Fear is excitement without breath."
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"And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece of rebar lying around, and I knew with sudden certainty that these guys were going to kill me right here on this stupid sidewalk, for nothing, without even the reason of knowing my name or hating my politics. They were just going to kill me because they needed to kill something, and I was handy. At least zombies would have had a reason."
Rachel Caine
"And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece of rebar lying around, and I knew with sudden certainty that these guys were going to kill me right here on this stupid sidewalk, for nothing, without even the reason of knowing my name or hating my politics. They were just going to kill me because they needed to kill something, and I was handy. At least zombies would have had a reason."
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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."
William Tecumseh Sherman
"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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"Jealousy is the fear of comparison."
Max Frisch
"Jealousy is the fear of comparison."
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"I do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear."
Patrick Rothfuss
"I do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear."
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"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."
Cyril Connolly
"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."
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