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• Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Business, People

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• My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Running, Pants, Nipples

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• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  Wangari Maathai

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Way, Forget

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• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

  Tacitus

  Perfect, Doe, Causes

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• First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Doubt, Atheism, Faces

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• I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

  Chanakya

  Long, May

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• And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

  Billy Sunday

  Christian, Thinking, You Don't Know Me

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

  Emile Zola

  Fate, Animal, Men

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• There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inattention, Facts, Flight

  "Krishnamurti's notebook".

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• When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Reality, Shadow

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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• Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Courage, Fall, Flew

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• Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

  John Dryden

  Death, Knows, Life And Death

  'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

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• Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

  Franz Kafka

  Night, Dread

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• 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.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Motivational, Daughter

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• There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Inspirational, Failure, Hazards

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• The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

  F. H. Bradley

  Men, Care, He Man

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 63., 1930.

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• Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Heart, Cutting, Temptation

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• A fighter has to know fear.

  Cus D'Amato

  Negativity, Fighter, Knows

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• Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

  Tecumseh

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Native American

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

  Marvin Gaye

  Limits, Spirit, Sin

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• We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

  Sue Grafton

  Passion, Dark, People

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• I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

  Bob Dylan

  Acceptance, People, Silence

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