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" The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. "

Shirley MacLaine

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" We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement. "

" It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers. "

" 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. "

" All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. "

Edgar Allan Poe

" Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

" What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. "

" We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with. "

Kristin Armstrong

" The great thing about Roald Dahl is he tackled the big questions of life without any fear of being shocking or brutal, because he knew the kids could take it. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. "

" I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform. "

" Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. "

Francis of Assisi

" 'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dolls, clowns, and stuff like that. I've always been afraid of clowns, and then my fear of puppets came around, and 'Poltergeist' was the perfect combination to scare me with a clown doll. "

" To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. "

Bertrand Russell

" I can be a lazy slob. "

Shirley MacLaine

" Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. "

W. Edwards Deming

" I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country. "

Thomas Jefferson

" When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. "

Winston Churchill

" I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened. "

" I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me. "

" Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know? "

" I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long. "

" When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. "

" 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

" Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old. "

" I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways. "

" 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. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. "