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• An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

  Ovid

  Medicine, Understanding, Association

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• All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Social, Relation, Equity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.201, Modern Library

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• I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

  Salvador Dali

  Firsts, Canvas, Terrified

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• Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

  Deena Metzger

  Agreement, People, Feelings

  Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.7, Harper Collins

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  Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Success, Opportunity

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• When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.

  Andy Griffith

  Respect, Gun, Men

  "Fictional character: Andy Taylor". TV Series "The Andy Griffith Show", 1960-1968.

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• If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.

  Sydney Banks

  Inspirational, Change, Learning

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• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

  "Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet". Book by Georges Clemenceau, 1930.

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• Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Change, Encouraging

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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

  Views, Novelty, Absurdity

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

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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

  Love, Inspirational, Leadership

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

  Stanislav Grof

  Important, Spirituality, Type

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Courage, Decision

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• Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Children, Yesterday, Riding

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Believe, Mean, Uncomfortable Situations

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• Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

  James De Mille

  Long, Feelings, Lasts

  James De Mille (2015). “A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder”, p.108, Booklassic

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• l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

  Robert Moses

  Change, Hands, Sake

  "Aircraft Carrier: The Commission Comes To a Fork In the Ocean". Remarks by Commissioner Isaac C. Hunt, Jr., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, at the Practicing Law Institute's 30th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, New York, November 05, 1998.

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• Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Faith, Fighting, Generosity

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• You can never get rid of fear, you can only drop it.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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• It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Looks, Kill Me

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1123

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• Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

  John Marston

  Apprehension

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267-70, Antonio's Revenge, Prolog, 1922.

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• You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

  Milton Resnick

  Memories, Panic, Bottom

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• We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Righteous Man, Danger

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.159, Princeton University Press

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• Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

  Samuel Johnson

  Guilt, Flight

  Samuel Johnson, A.F. Neuwieller (1857). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.12

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