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" I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back. "

Eli Whitney

Man

Serious

Power

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" There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. "

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" We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. "

" Fear is the mother of foresight. "

" Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. "

" I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. "

" The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. "

" I more fear what is within me than what comes from without. "

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Without

" Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. "

" From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest. "

" There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. "

" Humble souls are fearful of their own strength. "

" Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off. "

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Fear

Waiting

" The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. "

" You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free. "

" When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. "

" Excessive fear is always powerless. "

" When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite. "

" A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear. "

" Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. "

" If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. "

" The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. "

" Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? "

" The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. "

" If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. "

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Will

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You

" The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid. "

" Fear runs our lives. It doesn't matter who you are. You have to understand your relationship with fear. Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up. "

" Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. "