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" Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House. "

Gwen Ifill

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" I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life. "

" I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. "

" I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment. "

" I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early. "

Max Baer

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" There is no worse emotion than fear. "

" I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety. "

" Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.' "

" Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. "

" I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want. "

" Any time you approach anything in fear and aggression or in self-preservation mode, you are going to scare people off. But if you go in love, with the idea of being the feet and hands of Christ, if you go with the idea of showing the love of Christ, then they become softened because love changes all. "

" The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. "

" One of the best features of my career is that I have gotten to meet and work with some of the most stellar people in the business. From Tim Russert and Jim Lehrer to Bryant Gumbel, Andrea Mitchell and Judy Woodruff, I have learned from the leading lights. "

" So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.' "

" I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing. "

" Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. "

" Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. "

" I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. "

" I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. "

" I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that? "

" Fear makes us feel our humanity. "

" I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength. "

" 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. "

" The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. "

" When population shifts - brought about by fair housing laws, affirmative action and landmark school desegregation rulings - political power is challenged as well. "

" The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. "

" The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct. "

" The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it. "

" Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. "

" I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans. "