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" We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them. "
Peter Benchley
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" I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. "
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" It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. "
George Orwell
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" I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. "
Charles de Montesquieu
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" For me, there is only love and fear. "
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" Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it. "
Gabrielle Bernstein
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" 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. "
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" We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us. "
Peter Benchley
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" Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. "
Marilyn Ferguson
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" Where fear is, happiness is not. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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" The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. "
H. P. Lovecraft
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Kind
" I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing. "
Bill Pullman
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" Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. "
Dan Millman
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Success
People
" Male writers don't want to be judged in the room. They want to be able to scarf an entire bag of potato chips while cracking fart jokes and making lewd comments without fear of feminine disapproval. But we're your co-workers, not your wives. "
Nell Scovell
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Scarf
" Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. "
W. Clement Stone
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Action
" The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. "
Adam Smith
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Real
Over
" I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes. "
Brad Feld
Fear
Great
History
" 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. "
Luis Gutierrez
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Real
America
" 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. "
Hale White
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Fear
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" Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. "
Paulo Coelho
Suffering
Search
Heart
" Every journey starts with fear. "
Jake Gyllenhaal
Fear
Starts
Journey
" Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. "
Peter Benchley
Food
Ocean
Sharks
" Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. "
Mahatma Gandhi
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Punishment
Power
" The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. "
Eduardo Galeano
Fear
Information
Purpose
" I learned a priceless lesson and one that everyone can use today - it's never the amount of money we have or haven't; it's always the amount of fear we have to wrestle with to make it through the day. "
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Money
Today
Lesson
" The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment. "
Martha Beck
Source
True
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" Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. "
Marianne Williamson
" In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. "
Simone de Beauvoir
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" Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. "
Graham Greene
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Writing
Wonder
" We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct. "
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Wisdom
" While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive. "
Sam Harris
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