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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
– Deepak Chopra
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Each time you find yourself at a turning point, the best thing is to lie down and let hours pass. Resolutions made standing up are worthless: they are dictated either by pride or by fear. Prone, we still know these two scourges, but in a more attenuated, more intemporal form.
– Emile M. Cioran
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Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
– Emile M. Cioran
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The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
– Emile M. Cioran
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Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.
– Emile M. Cioran
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A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
– Ramsey Clark
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
– John C. Collins
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The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.
– Cyril Connolly
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
– Bill Cosby
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Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must, make it laugh, make it cry, but above all never, never, never bore the living hell out of it.
– Noel Coward
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Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!
– Peter Cushing
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There are two Americas - and millions of the people already distinguish between them. One is the America of the imperialists - of the little clique of capitalists, land lords and militarists, who are threatening and terrifying the world. This is the America the people of the world hate and fear. There is the other America - the America of the workers and farmers and the 'little people.'
– James P. Cannon
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When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.
– Chilon
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Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
– Tao Te Ching
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In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
– Chin-Ning Chu
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Good Friday Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright! My thoughts are the disciples when they fled, My words the words that priest and soldier said, My deed the spear to desecrate the dead. And day, Thy death therein, is changed to night.
– Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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Benton Wesley was taking off his running shoes in my kitchen when I ran to him, my heart tripping over fear and hate and remembered horror.
– Patricia Cornwell
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I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
– Abraham Crowley
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I have NOTHING to fear. First of all, everybody else is unavailable for comment.
– Chuck D.
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Sacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear!
– Samuel Daniel
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
– Don DeLillo
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I've been shooting these video movies, which I'm pretty excited about, but this is my first 35 millimeter feature. I think, because I started in this business so young, at 14, and I worked very early with so many great directors, that I was artistically ready to direct at 18. But because I worked with so many great directors, I wasn't secure enough to do that. Now I just say, Why not? What's to fear?
– Julie Delpy
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The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
– Johnny Depp
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The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.
– Elizabeth Dole
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
– Lloyd C. Douglas
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Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.
– Michael Douglas
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
– John Dryden
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Now that I'm married and thinking of having a family, my greatest fear is being unable to defend my loved ones.
– David Duchovny
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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.
– Andrea Dworkin
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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
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Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.
– George A. Dorsey
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Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
– Helen Gahagan Douglas
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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
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How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
– Shirin Ebadi
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
– Umberto Eco
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
– Albert Einstein
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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
– Albert Einstein
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It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
– Albert Einstein
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
– George Eliot
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The fear and anxiety of baring my soul is transcended by the thrill and honor and wonderfulness of being able to touch and affect so many people... having people look into my mind, my imagination... into my heart and soul.
– Kim Elizabeth
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.
– Michael Ende
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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
– Epictetus
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
– Desiderius Erasmus
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Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
– Yunus Emre
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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence.A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes.A boss knows all, a leader asks questions.A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.
– Russell H. Ewing
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Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
– William Faulkner
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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
– Marilyn Ferguson
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It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
– Marilyn Ferguson
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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
– Marilyn Ferguson
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There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
– Joanna Field
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Fear and hope are alike underneath.
– Richard Ford
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There are people who in private ask us to respect the confidentiality of their donations, and we do, because we understand the fear they have of being repressed, just as I was when I began in politics. Important businesspeople often lose the vision of the wonderful opportunities this country offers if we achieve a true democracy-they prefer short-term benefits. The ones who ARE changing are women. They have a very different vision.
– Vicente Fox
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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man-fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut off from them.
– Robert Frost
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
– Warren Farrell
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Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
– William Floyd
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Humor opposes directly those emotions which have been specifically recorded as being associated with precipitation of heart attack. These emotions are fear and rage. Humor acts to relieve hear. Rage is impossible when mirth prevails.
– William F. Fry, Jr.
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Courage has never been known to be a matter of muscle; it is a matter of the heart. The toughest muscle has been known to tremble before an imaginary fear. It was the heart that set the muscle atrembling.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realize that they need not fear brute force, if they would but know the soul within.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Non-violence and cowardice go ill together. I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
– Bill Gates
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We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
– William Gilbert
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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
– William E. Gladstone
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My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.
– Elliott Gould
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Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
– Benjamin Graham
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I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
– Mavis Gallant
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Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.
– Bhagavad Gita
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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
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Rarely does anyone speak of fear for his own life, as if an unspoken etiquette prevails.
– Jane Gross
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As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the slights of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.
– Francesco Guicciardini
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Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
– Philip Gulley
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I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
– Alex Haley
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Freedom from fear could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.
– Tom Hayden
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Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
– Shirley Hazzard
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The Freudian view that accomplished women are sexually men, or trying to be, has done more, I suspect, than any other misconception to doom women to fear of accomplishment and selfhood.
– Carolyn Heilbrun
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It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
– Arthur Henderson
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No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
– Brad Henry
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There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.
– Matthew Henry
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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
– Adolf Hitler
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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
– Thomas Hobbes
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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
– Thomas Hobbes
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If we obstinately refuse to reform what we have implicitly declared to be wrong, and engaged to put away the holding of the Africans in slavery... have we not the great reason to fear, yea, may we not with great certainty conclude, God will withdraw his kind protection from us, and punish us yet seven times more?
– Samuel Hopkins
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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
– Victor Hugo
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My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.
– John Hurt
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But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
– Anne Hutchinson
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But put the case, Sir, that I do fear the Lord and my parents. May not I entertain them that fear the Lord because my parents will not give me leave?
– Anne Hutchinson
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The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
– Thomas Henry Huxley
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Reverence for our past history, regard for the memory of our ancestors, our national honour, and the fear of becoming materialized and losing our best and highest characteristics call upon us imperatively to assist the Irish-speaking population.
– Douglas Hyde
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For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.
– King Hussein
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What does a man seek in this world? A position, or a throne? Man seeks peace of mind and the fear of Almighty God.
– King Hussein
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