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" Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. "
John Cheever
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" People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. "
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" What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. "
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" 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. "
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" Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything. "
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" I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning. "
Che Guevara
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" Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. "
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" The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment. "
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" The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one. "
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" The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. "
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" We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. "
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" 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.' "
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" My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self. "
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" The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s. "
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" 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. "
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" You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please. "
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