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" Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path. "

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" Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. "

Mahatma Gandhi

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" Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. "

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

" Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work. "

William Hurt

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" Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. "

" My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency. "

" I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is. "

" By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. "

" But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why. "

" Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation. "

" My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that. "

" I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still. "

" What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima. "

" I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. "

" There's no fear when you're having fun. "

" In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality. "

Barack Obama

" I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform. "

" I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. "

" None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. "

Bertrand Russell

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" The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. "

" Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. "

" And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. "

" My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself. "

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. "

" 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. "

" I also have this incredible love for women. "

" A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. "

" The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. "