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• Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

  Peter Beinart

  Fall, Thinking, People

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• Being afraid is the worst sin there is.

  Jean-Paul Belmondo

  Sin, Breathless, Worst

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• There's people that are just in awe of what you do, and then there are people who just think it's garbage. And I think there are people who are just uncomfortable seeing someone have fun with their job

  Todd Barry

  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

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• Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

  Wynonna Judd

  Darkness, Flip

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• The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

  Shimon Peres

  Things In Life, Important, Trying

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• A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Hurt, Children, Hate

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Jump and Other Stories”, p.66, A&C Black

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• An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

  Jean Anouilh

  Men, Sight, Ugly

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• Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  May, Victim, Former

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• Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Self Esteem, Loss, Needs

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• The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Husband, Women

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.113, Mondial

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• We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  God, Science, Anxiety

  Strength Through Love Ch. 13

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• I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Expression, Adequate

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

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• Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

  William Wordsworth

  Pain, Gains, Miserable

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.87

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• If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorrow, Gold, Want

  "The Rambler".

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• Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

  Ovid

  Psychology, Mind, Ease

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• He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

  Seneca the Younger

  Kings, Desire, Fear Nothing

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• They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Speak, Slave

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.53

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• Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

  William Penn

  Death, Forever, Dying

  "Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life".

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• I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

  Ovid

  Blessing, Stealing, Fortune

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• The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Age, Poverty

  Napoleon Hill, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale “Earl Nightingale's "Strangest Secret" Library”, Lulu.com

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• I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

  Edwin Markham

  School, Shrines, Vermin

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• The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

  Tacitus

  Courage, Bravery, Despair

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• Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear - those are the twin bases of every religion.

  Marquis de Sade

  Religious, Ignorance, Exercise

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• The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Vanity, Persuasion

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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