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“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
“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.”
“Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.”
“It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.”
“The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
“Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.”
“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.”
“The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.”
“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”
“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.”
“We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.”
“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”
“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.”
“Don't fear change - embrace it.”
“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
“To fear the worst ofter cures the worse.”
“The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads.”
“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
“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.”
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.”
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