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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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"It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear."
Henry Carter Stuart
"It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear."
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"Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys."
Mary C. Jones
"Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys."
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"The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony."
Hans Blix
"The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony."
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"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us."
Freya Stark
"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us."
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"My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one."
Shane Warne
"My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one."
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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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"There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best."
Rickie Lee Jones
"There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best."
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"Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me."
Sophie Kinsella
"Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me."
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"There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies."
Leon Kass
"There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies."
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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."
Hans Blix
"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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"When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear."
Vincent D'Onofrio
"When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear."
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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."
David Cronenberg
"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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"Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony."
Jonah Goldberg
"Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony."
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"Fear is natural. Be with it."
Thomas Leonard
"Fear is natural. Be with it."
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"Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing."
Alex Lowe
"Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing."
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"If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear."
Billy Corgan
"If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear."
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"For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties."
Kurt Student
"For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties."
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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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"The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something."
Barney Ross
"The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something."
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"There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts."
Kiefer Sutherland
"There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts."
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"Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day."
Edward Albert
"Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day."
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"If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars."
Arthur Hugh Clough
"If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars."
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"You cannot be afraid of the unknown. In every moment and with every step you take, the unknown becomes the known."
Dragos Bratasanu
"You cannot be afraid of the unknown. In every moment and with every step you take, the unknown becomes the known."
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"This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part."
Bernhard von Bulow
"This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part."
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"Courage is a peculiar kind of fear."
Charles Kennedy
"Courage is a peculiar kind of fear."
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"Fear has many faces."
Nicolas Roeg
"Fear has many faces."
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"The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance."
Steve Perry
"The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance."
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"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."
J. K. Rowling
"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."
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"I delight in what I fear."
Shirley Jackson
"I delight in what I fear."
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
Marianne Williamson
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
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"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."
Andre Gide
"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."
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"You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear."
Johnny Vegas
"You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear."
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"I didn't fear failure. I expected failure."
Amy Tan
"I didn't fear failure. I expected failure."
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"Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves."
Milan Kundera
"Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves."
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"It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself."
Caryl Chessman
"It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself."
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"After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event."
Sanhita Baruah
"After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event."
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"The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear."
Nat King Cole
"The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear."
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"The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly."
Zig Ziglar
"The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly."
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"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."
Grace Paley
"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."
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"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."
Umberto Eco
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."
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"Fear follows crime and is its punishment."
Voltaire
"Fear follows crime and is its punishment."
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"A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still"
Dale Carnegie
"A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still"
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"Nothing restricts your success more than your limiting self - beliefs and fears."
Maddy Malhotra
"Nothing restricts your success more than your limiting self - beliefs and fears."
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"Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house."
John Cheever
"Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house."
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"Josey? She heard her mother's voice in the hall, then the thud of her cane as she came closer. 'Please don't tell her I'm here,  the woman in the closet said, with a strange sort of desperation. Despite the cold outside, she was wearing a cropped white shirt and tight dark blue jeans that sat low, revealing a tattoo of a broken heart on her hip. Her hair was bleached white - blond with about an inch of silver - sprinkled dark roots showing. Her mascara had run and there were black streaks on her cheeks. She looked drip - dried, like she'd been walking in the rain, though there hadn't."
Sarah Addison Allen
"Josey? She heard her mother's voice in the hall, then the thud of her cane as she came closer. 'Please don't tell her I'm here, the woman in the closet said, with a strange sort of desperation. Despite the cold outside, she was wearing a cropped white shirt and tight dark blue jeans that sat low, revealing a tattoo of a broken heart on her hip. Her hair was bleached white - blond with about an inch of silver - sprinkled dark roots showing. Her mascara had run and there were black streaks on her cheeks. She looked drip - dried, like she'd been walking in the rain, though there hadn't."
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"Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding."
Edward Albert
"Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding."
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"Everyone knew that bugs traveled in packs. Only the stupid ones got caught. The smart ones lay in wait for her to go to sleep so they could attack."
Jill Shalvis
"Everyone knew that bugs traveled in packs. Only the stupid ones got caught. The smart ones lay in wait for her to go to sleep so they could attack."
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"We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii."
Marc Morial
"We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii."
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"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will."
James Stephens
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will."
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