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" We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. "

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" Do not fear mistakes. There are none. "

" It's always easy to look at either the politics of division or fear as effective tools in politics, but ultimately, even though they can be effective tools to help you get elected, they hinder your ability to actually get the job of building a better future for this country, for this community, done. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality. "

" Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics. "

Marquis de Lafayette

" 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. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. "

" The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. "

" If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. "

James A. Michener

" I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It's a really good motivator. "

" Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" 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. "

" If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. "

" We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. "

" Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear. "

" The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. "

" When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. "

Henry David Thoreau

" A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. "

" A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. "

" It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. "

Georges Bernanos

" I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are. "

" The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is. "

" Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. "

" The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage. "

" The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us. "

" I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that's doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

" Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear. "

Bernard Law Montgomery