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" The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness. "

Dorothy Thompson

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" You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free. "

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

" A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside. "

" I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. "

" I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City. "

" Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. "

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" Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. "

" I say I am stronger than fear. "

Malala Yousafzai

" Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. "

" But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why. "

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" My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.' "

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" In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control. "

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" A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. "

" A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. "

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" 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. "

" You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge. "

Mariska Hargitay

" It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment. "

" 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. "

" The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what. "

" Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what. "

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" 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. "

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Mamnoon Hussain

" Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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" It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible. "

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