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" The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear. "

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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. "

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" We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. "

" Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way. "

" There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. "

" The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. "

" What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. "

" I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends. "

" As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. "

" No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. "

" Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. "

" My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. "

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" Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength. "

" I'm not for one second condoning the actions of terrorists at all, but I do think there's a kind of terrorism that the media carries out on its own citizens, certainly in this country - and it's fear. "

" 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. "

" I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood. "

" Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. "

" I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude. "

" Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from. "

" Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences. "

" I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down. "

" Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. "

" Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure. "

" Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance. "

" Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. "

" I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. "

" The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear. "

" The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. "

" 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. "

" Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. "

" It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. "