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" We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. "

Emile M. Cioran

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" Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow. "

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" Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. "

" 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. "

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" In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. "

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" I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear. "

" I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear. "

" I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear. "

" Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. "

" Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. "

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" He whom many fear, has himself many to fear. "

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" The strongest passion is fear. "

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" My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. "

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" If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do. "

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" But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me. "

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" Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog. "

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" The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly. "

" Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. "

" Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. "

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" In time we hate that which we often fear. "

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" It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. "

" To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end. "

" I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don't. "

" A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. "

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" There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. "

" Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. "

" A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear. "

" Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives. "

" With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and... with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along. "

" I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. "