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

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" I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I. "

" 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. "

Stanley Kubrick

" My own fear, if I have one myself, is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of, something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen. "

" We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them. "

" I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. "

" Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. "

" A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent. "

" I say I am stronger than fear. "

Malala Yousafzai

" Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it. "

" Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. "

Francis of Assisi

" This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later. "

Laura Schlessinger

" I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends. "

" When a dictatorship imprisons someone or makes them disappear, it's actually a very strategic move. We forget that. It's not as senseless as it seems. It's a way to silence someone, but also it's a way to silence their family as well, out of fear, and society by extension. "

" We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore. "

" 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. "

John F. Kennedy

" Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope. "

" Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. "

Mary Catherine Bateson

" Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. "

" It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in internment camps during World War II, but so were some Italians and Germans. "

" 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

" No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. "

" There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best. "

Rickie Lee Jones

" Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning. "

" It's always easy to look at either the politics of division or fear as effective tools in politics, but ultimately, even though they can be effective tools to help you get elected, they hinder your ability to actually get the job of building a better future for this country, for this community, done. "

" Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. "

" Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow. "

Mother Angelica

" People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. "

" Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance. "

" How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. "

Florence Nightingale