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" The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling. "

Lou Henry Hoover

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" Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. "

" We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you. "

" A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it. "

" The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not. "

" Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe. "

" 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

" Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. "

Bertrand Russell

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

" There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. "

" It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. "

" As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do. "

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

" Don't be afraid to see what you see. "

" Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" Fear is the passion of slaves. "

" If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" It's not attractive to be talking down about yourself all the time. All you continue to do to yourself is pull yourself further down into a deeper place of depression and sadness and insecurity and fear and hopelessness, so it's like, having God in your life is important, accepting who you are is important, regardless of what you look like. "

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

" There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

" 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. "

" Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. "

James A. Baldwin

" What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. "

" I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance. "

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

" The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. "

Winston Churchill

" Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. "

" The unmerited fear of genetically modified organism crops threatens scientific advancements in biotechnology needed to meet the growing global demand for safe and affordable food. "

" So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right. "

Friedrich Durrenmatt

" Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. "

Hunter S. Thompson