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" I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. "

Charles de Montesquieu

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" The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly. "

" Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. "

" 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. "

" Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book. "

" Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know? "

" I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear! "

" We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. "

" The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. "

Lou Henry Hoover

" I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother. "

" 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. "

" There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. "

Laurence D. Fink

" The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness. "

" Find out what you're afraid of and go live there. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement. "

" There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. "

Charles de Montesquieu

" The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. "

" The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. "

Charles de Montesquieu

" 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. "

Daniel H. Wilson

" While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God. "

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

" Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. "

" 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. "

" I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. "

Sharon Salzberg

" In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. "

" Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. "

William Shakespeare

" I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there. "

Shirley Jackson

" People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get. "

Anthony Bourdain

" Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion. "