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" The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. "

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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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" I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.' "

" Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it. "

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

" You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please. "

" The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life. "

" I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety. "

" I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me. "

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" 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. "

" We fear the thing we want the most. "

" I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt. "

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" Fear, to me, is a guiding thing more than anything. "

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" The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. "

" No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. "

" I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales. "

" Fear is the passion of slaves. "

" I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. "

" Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House. "

" I like to do something I fear. "

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" A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man. "

" If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. "

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" No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. "

" I don't fear anything. "

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" People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get. "

" I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. "

" What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear. "

" Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion. "

" Any time you approach anything in fear and aggression or in self-preservation mode, you are going to scare people off. But if you go in love, with the idea of being the feet and hands of Christ, if you go with the idea of showing the love of Christ, then they become softened because love changes all. "

" Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. "

" I learned a priceless lesson and one that everyone can use today - it's never the amount of money we have or haven't; it's always the amount of fear we have to wrestle with to make it through the day. "