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" Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis. "

Zygmunt Bauman

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" A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it. "

" With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. "

" I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. "

" We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with. "

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" It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric. "

" Fear is excitement without breath. "

" It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. "

" The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. "

" Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood. "

" The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. "

" When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension. "

" Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission. "

" To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. "

" A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. "

" What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. "

" Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. "

" When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. "

" There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. "

" Darkness might seem to obscure what's happening, but I find it's always pretty revelatory: it brings out the awe in us, the fear in us, the excitement of exploring the hidden or unknown. It seems to conceal, but it really shines a light on what we want, what we need, and what we'll do to get it. Especially when we think no one can see us. "

" Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes. "

" We fear the thing we want the most. "

" The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. "