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Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
– Nelson Mandela
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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
– Bertrand Russell
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China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.
– Paul Wolfowitz
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Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
– Daniel H. Wilson
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Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.
– Elisha Cuthbert
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But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.
– Reese Witherspoon
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
– Barry Bonds
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But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.
– Ginnifer Goodwin
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
– Bear Grylls
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
– Seth Godin
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Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
– Harlan Coben
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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
– Vita Sackville-West
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Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
– Susan Sontag
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
– Jesse Jackson
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As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.
– Beth Ditto
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As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
– Marianne Williamson
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As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
– Chanakya
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As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
– Simone Weil
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
– Cyril Connolly
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As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.
– Ariel Sharon
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As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
– James Bovard
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Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.
– Leighton Meester
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Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.
– Ayelet Waldman
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And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
– Black Elk
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Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.
– Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Americans have discovered fear.
– Jose Saramago
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
– Ben Stein
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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
– Warren Buffett
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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
– Stephen King
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
– Theodore Bikel
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Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
– Andrew Cohen
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
– J. J. Abrams
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
– Stendhal
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
– Edgar Allan Poe
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
– Roald Dahl
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
– Sophocles
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
– Jack Nicholson
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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
– David Hume
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
– Henry Van Dyke
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
– Warren Farrell
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A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
– Mary Schmich
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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
– Dan Savage
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.
– Kathie Lee Gifford
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A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
– Herb Kelleher
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'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.
– Corey Hart
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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
– Brian Adams
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Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.
– Hannes Alfven
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The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife-a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held.
– Woody Allen
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The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.
– Richard Allen
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The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
– Peter Lewis Allen
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Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping-or attaches the name of St. Patrick to the day of the year that bartenders fear most.
– Jon Anderson
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Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
– Ivo Andric
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
– Louis Aragon
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Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
– Aristotle
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
– Arthur Ashe
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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
– Chet Atkins
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
– Saint Augustine
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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
– Richard Bach
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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
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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.
– Scott Bakula
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
– James A. Baldwin
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
– J. G. Ballard
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Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
– Bruce Barton
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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
– James F. Bell
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Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.
– Art Bell
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It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.
– Bo Bennett
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While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
– Bo Bennett
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
– Ambrose Bierce
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Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
– Matt Blunt
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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
– Kjell Magne Bondevik
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When they built this building they were afraid to say that beauty is truth for fear that it wouldn't be by the time it was completed.
– Daniel J. Boorstin
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There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship. There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.
– Barbara Boxer
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
– Louis D. Brandeis
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One thing I really fear is living too long and becoming one of these vegetables and a burden to everybody and to yourself. And so I've had such a rich life, such fabulous opportunities, that I feel, Okay, take it as it comes.
– J. Carter Brown
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
– Pearl S. Buck
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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
– Buddha
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
– Warren E. Burger
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Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
– George W. Bush
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The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
– George W. Bush
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The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
– George W. Bush
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
– Samuel Butler
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
– Lord Byron
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Knight without fear and without reproach.
– Richard Harris Barham
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How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?
– Joel Barlow
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The most important political step that any gay man or lesbian can take is to come out of the closet. It's been proven that it is easier to hate us and to fear us if you can't see us.
– Amanda Bearse
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I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
– Pierre de Beaumarchais
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Central Africans are free to express their opinions without fear of imprisonment.
– Francois Bozize
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There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.
– Anne Bradstreet
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Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel alive. They're also about betrayal.
– Emily Brown
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We want to live, but we do not want to live in fear, nor do we want to regress to the status of primordial man.
– Harrison Brown
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The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.
– Sylvia Browne
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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
– Jean Bryant
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Bright Eyes, Light Eyes! Daughter of a Fay! I had not been a married wife a twelvemonth and a day, I had not nursed my little one a month upon my knee, When down among the blue bell banks rose elfins three times three: hey griped me by the raven hair, I could not cry for fear, They put a hempen rope around my waist and dragged me here; They made me sit and give thee suck as mortal mothers can, Bright Eyes, Light Eyes! strange and weak and wan!
– Robert Williams Buchanan
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I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
– Julius Caesar
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I think people in your business fear they would forget what they want to say.
– Tucker Carlson
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
– Dale Carnegie
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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
– Noam Chomsky
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