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" One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed. "
Dustin Hoffman
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" There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it. "
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" I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect. "
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" Do what you fear and fear disappears. "
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" We fear the thing we want the most. "
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" My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. "
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" True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. "
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" We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. "
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" Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not. "
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" We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment. "
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" You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. "
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" We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty. "
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" The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things. "
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" The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk. "
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" Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. "
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" The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. "
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" 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. "
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" In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. "
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" Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of. "
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" 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. "
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" I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not. "
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" Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom. "
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" Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy. "
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" A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. "
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" Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man. "
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" Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create. "
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