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" Never be afraid to sit a while and think. "

Lorraine Hansberry

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" Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. "

" There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him. "

Feisal Abdul Rauf

" Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. "

" A good spicy challenge strikes a balance between flavour and fear. "

" The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. "

" I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want. "

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

" I say I am stronger than fear. "

Malala Yousafzai

" 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 think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. I try to approach it and understand it... I'm just visiting fears. "

Denis Villeneuve

" Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe. "

" Fear is the foundation of safety. "

" Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. "

Douglas MacArthur

" Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer. "

Elizabeth Flock

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

Corrie Ten Boom

" Where fear is, happiness is not. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. "

" Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions. "

" You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough. "

Not Good Enough

" The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. "

" Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear. "

" The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure. "

Robin S. Sharma

" The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers. "

" A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years. "

" I'd read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, 'Please, don't hurt this guy.' That's the key to suspense. It's easy to disgust a reader. It's much harder to make them care. "

Mark Billingham

" You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed. "

" Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism. "

Randi Weingarten