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" As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best. "
Alice Walker
School
Know
Fear
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" Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book. "
Oscar Wilde
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Fear
Book
" When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. "
Winston Churchill
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" I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. "
Alice Walker
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Living
Who
" Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. "
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Patience
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" The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance. "
Steve Perry
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Need
Must
" The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. "
Cyril Connolly
Get
Get Married
Married
" If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs. "
Alice Walker
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Fight
Food
" I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. "
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Than
Fear
" I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Flags
Fear
Real
" You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.' "
Marina Abramovic
Mirror
Fear
Life
" Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. "
Dale Carnegie
Fear
Who
Those
" The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. "
Alice Walker
Man
People
Woman
" Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. "
Milan Kundera
Fear
Humility
Push
" Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. "
H. L. Mencken
Fear
Be Happy
Someone
" Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. "
Alice Walker
Better
Life
I Believe
" The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. "
Adam Smith
Fear
Real
Over
" Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives. "
Susan Cain
Parenting
Step
Children
" Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it. "
Tacitus
Angry
Habit
Hear
" Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Sadness
Only
Memories
" Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist. "
John Mackey
Energy
Focus
Mind
" Humble souls are fearful of their own strength. "
William Gurnall
Strength
Souls
Own
" Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. "
Napoleon Hill
Than
Mind
More
" To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. "
Ramakrishna
Fear
World
Work
" The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless. "
Edith Stein
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Fear
Measure
" There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. "
Charles de Montesquieu
Reason
Passion
Nation
" 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. "
Aristotle
Fear
Rather
Punishment
" PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect. "
Ingrid Newkirk
Pain
Dog
Children
" But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me. "
Anne Hutchinson
Now
Man
Invisible
" My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family. "
Alice Walker
Family
Service
Culture