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" It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. "

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" You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense. "

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" Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. "

" Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. "

" If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it. "

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

" You see in times of crisis that extremist forces, populist forces, have a better ground to oversimplify things and to manipulate feelings. Feelings of fear. "

" There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. "

" Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear. "

" The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. "

" I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious. "

" Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old. "

Todd McFarlane

Work

Old

" Jealousy is the fear of comparison. "

" 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 blind-folded fear. "

" Do what you fear and fear disappears. "

David Joseph Schwartz

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" We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. "

" All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. "

" What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. "

" I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning. "

Taylor Swift

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. "

" I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it. "

" Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. "