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• I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

  Lance Armstrong

  Heart, Facts, Priceless

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• I never cared, I was careless,
  Fear bein afraid or maybe I'm afraid to be fearless.
  Or fear bein' fearless but fearful,
  So even in my carelessness...gotta be careful.

  Joe Budden

  Rap, Hip Hop, Fearless

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• History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Political, Surveillance, Used

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Eye, Reality, Hands

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• Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.

  George Gerbner

  Strong, Fear, Simple

  Nancy Signorielli, George Gerbner (1988). “Violence and Terror in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography”, p.21, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through the world in the '80s. Today's generation sees it more as something to live with and something to be much less fearful of. And that comes with a sense of, dare I say, laziness. We need to be really vigilant and open about the fact that these drugs are not to be taken to increase our ability to have recreational sex.

  Zachary Quinto

  Sex, Taken, Thinking

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• Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Fear, Night, Pilots

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.42

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• Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full of unpleasant contents, a compound of long-hidden truths, closeted, buried, forgotten. When I went looking, I was playing a desperate game of hide-and-seek, fearful of what I might find, most afraid that I would find nothing.

  Doris Grumbach

  Self, Games, Space

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• No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who bear the brunt of the surveillance, leading those who support the government or are merely apathetic to mistakenly believe they are immune. And history shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Believe, Government

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

  Warren Buffett

  Party, Gold, Belief

  "Treasury commitee struggles to hide scorn over Osborne's Help to Buy plan" by Nils Pratley, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.

  Glenda Millard

  Book, Home, Needs

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• There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Average, People, Groups

  "Interview: Charles R. Swindoll on Public Speaking and Letting God Lead Our Lives". Interview with Myles Collier, www.christianpost.com. February 23, 2012.

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• If you find yourself focusing on negative scenarios, ask us angels to transmute this fearful energy into love.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Finding Yourself, Energy

  Doreen Virtue (2008). “Daily Guidance from Your Angels”, p.332, Hay House, Inc

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• Confide not in the firmness of your principles, or the steadfastness of your integrity. Be always vigilant and fearful. Never think you have enough of knowledge, and let not your caution slumber for a moment, for you know not when danger is near.

  Charles Brockden Brown

  Integrity, Thinking, Principles

  Charles Brockden Brown (1998). “Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist”, p.260, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

  Ben Stein

  Sleep, People, Achievement

  "Ben Stein Wants You To Sleep". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Dogs do know how comfortable you are with yourself, how happy you are, how fearful you are, and what is missing inside of you.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Missing, Know How

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2007). “Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life”, p.19, Crown Archetype

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• To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Garden

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• I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Liars, Love Is, Men

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• Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Independent, Self, Preparation

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Any time we open ourselves up to fear, we fall prey to his deceptions and intimidations. Yet, if we submit our hearts to God and stand in faith, we can resist those first fearful thoughts. As we yield to God we can master our reactions to fear and the enemy will soon flee.

  Francis Frangipane

  Fall, Heart, Yield

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• If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Scarcity, Limits, Vulnerable

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is a world of masters and serfs, a kind of permanent underclass. That's what's happening; that's what's being created. Rapacious corporate business interests have shattered all kinds of regulations and controls. They have carried out a coup d'etat in slow motion. And it's over; they've won.

  Chris Hedges

  World, Regulation, Slow Motion

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• To be fair, if we are having a mass extinction, we're in the early stages of it. I think it's knowing facts like that which has made me less fearful about the future. Mass extinction is a long, complicated process that we are just now beginning to understand - and likewise, we are just beginning to understand how we might prevent one.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Mass Extinction, Knowing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is ludicrous to believe that he meant nuclear weapons can be used. It is truly fearful to see how the mainstream media in the west can construct an adversary and that there are so few dissenting voices.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Believe, Media, Voice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fan­tasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.

  Alice Miller

  Home, Vitality, Fans

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.19, Basic Books

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