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" 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. "

Thomas Jefferson

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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. "

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" It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world. "

Sebastian Thrun

" Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate. "

" Oh, I'm full of fear. I care about things; therefore, I have fears. I like to think that I'm brave, which is different. Brave means you're able to admit that you care. If you care, you are vulnerable. "

" My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything. "

" I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear. "

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

" I like to do something I fear. "

" Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. "

" Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor. "

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. "

Thomas J. Watson

" Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. "

Thomas Jefferson

" An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. "

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" The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand. "

" For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration. "

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" I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I. "

" Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. "

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" It's all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn't move the game forward - the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please - so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters. "

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" God's grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weaknesses will determine in what way we shall glorify God for all eternity. "

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