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We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.
– Theodore C. Sorensen
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We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
– Chanakya
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We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
– King Hussein
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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
– Jean Anouilh
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We must travel in the direction of our fear.
– John Berryman
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
– Jean de La Fontaine
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We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
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We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
– Christiane Amanpour
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We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.
– Mitch Daniels
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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
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We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.
– Francois Hollande
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We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.
– Kevin Costner
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
– Salman Rushdie
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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
– Publilius Syrus
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Vaccines save lives fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
– Jeffrey Kluger
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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
– Titus Livius
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Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
– Luis Gutierrez
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True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
– Paul Sweeney
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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
– Patrick Swayze
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
– Ramakrishna
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
– Miguel de Cervantes
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
– Steven Brust
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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.
– Horace Mann
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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.
– Keith Richards
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
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To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
– Horace
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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
– Homer
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To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
– Francois Rabelais
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To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.
– David Joseph Schwartz
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
– Bertrand Russell
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Those who own much have much to fear.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
– Saint Francis de Sales
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This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
– W. Clement Stone
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
– William Shakespeare
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They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.
– Willie Aames
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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
– Nicolaus Copernicus
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There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
– Barry Mann
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There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
– Huey Newton
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There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
– Arianna Huffington
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There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!
– Ben Stiller
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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
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
– Don DeLillo
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There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
– George Osborne
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
– Henry Miller
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There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
– Nelson Mandela
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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
– Thomas Jefferson
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
– Thomas Hobbes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
– Baruch Spinoza
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
– Ben Jonson
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'
– Michelle Bachelet
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There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
– Ron Chernow
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There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.
– Leon Kass
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There is a fear of emotion in tennis.
– Andy Murray
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
– Cyril Connolly
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There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
– Conan O'Brien
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The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
– Ellen DeGeneres
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
– Buddha
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The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.
– Patrick Wilson
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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
– William Jennings Bryan
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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
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The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
– George Saunders
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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
– Anton Chekhov
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The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.
– Jewel Kilcher
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
– Oprah Winfrey
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The thing we fear we bring to pass.
– Elbert Hubbard
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The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.
– Ayelet Waldman
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The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
– Jane Smiley
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The strongest passion is fear.
– Jean de La Fontaine
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
– Thomas Paine
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The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function.
– Stokely Carmichael
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The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
– George Saunders
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.
– George Weinberg
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The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
– Liza Minnelli
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The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.
– Maynard James Keenan
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The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
– David Icke
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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.
– Adam Smith
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
– Noam Chomsky
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The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
– Warren Farrell
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The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
– John Stossel
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
– Abu Bakr
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
– Brian Tracy
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The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
– David Wilkerson
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
– Aristotle
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The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.
– Julie Burchill
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The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.
– Daniel H. Wilson
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The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.
– Terry Bradshaw
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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
– Eric Hoffer
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The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
– Ang Lee
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
– Emile Zola
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The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.
– Geraldine Brooks
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The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.
– Mitt Romney
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The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
– Judy Blume
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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
– Alexander Payne
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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
– Robert Anton Wilson
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