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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. "

Coretta Scott King

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" Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline. "

Coretta Scott King

" You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots. "

" It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. "

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

" 'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dolls, clowns, and stuff like that. I've always been afraid of clowns, and then my fear of puppets came around, and 'Poltergeist' was the perfect combination to scare me with a clown doll. "

" As an actor you have one great fear: pimples! "

Jonathan Brandis

" In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear. "

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" Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. "

Corrie Ten Boom

" I've had a hard life. I smell and sense fear. I didn't get that from Catholic school; I know what fear is. "

Bernard Hopkins

" You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. "

Sammy Davis, Jr.

" Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood. "

" We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they've been treated unjustly and responding to their concerns with a sense of justice and compassion. "

Coretta Scott King

" Fear is the highest fence. "

" Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people. "

Coretta Scott King

" My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions. "

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" I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. "

Coretta Scott King

" The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. "

" Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. "

" There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized. "

" The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. "

" I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude. "

" People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures. "

" Fear is the foundation of safety. "

" A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear. "

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" I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God. "

" You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. "