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• What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Children, Thinking, May

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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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• 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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• 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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• I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear.

  Red Auerbach

  Play, I Can

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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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• You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.

  Paula Abdul

  Jumping, Circles, Becoming Who You Are

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• Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Failure, Events, Elements

  Newell Dwight Hillis (1911). “The Contagion of Character: Studies in Culture and Success”

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• Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

  Thomas Fuller

  Running, Bravery, Graphic Design

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• The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing.
  [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba
  Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

  Ovid

  Wings, Movement, Hawks

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• The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Political, Mein Kampf, Politics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• Oh! that fear
  When the heart longs to know, what it is death to hear.

  George Croly

  Heart, Knows

  George Croly (1830). “The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Croly”, p.209

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• Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

  Francis Quarles

  Literature, Action, Resolution

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.18

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• Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

  Douglas Horton

  Action, Terrorism, Cures

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• Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Light, Darkness

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Year of Miracles: Daily Devotions and Reflections”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Inspirational, Teacher, Being Afraid

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• I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

  Steve Irwin

  Nature, Koalas, Snakes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

  Jesse Jackson

  The End Of The Day, Division, Hell

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Time, Long, Age

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Life, Courage, Giving

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• Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.

  Florence Earle Coates

  Fire, Wings

  Florence Earle Coates (1916). “Poems”

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• One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

  Elias Canetti

  Prejudice, Transformation

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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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