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• It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm.

  Gertrude the Great

  Mistake, Believe, Wish

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• The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.

  Ludwig Borne

  Fear, Dangerous, Persons

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• Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication and religious conviction of the founding generation. Ever since, Americans have looked to the next generation not only with love and solicitude but with a good measure of anxiety, worrying whether they themselves were good parents, fearful that their children would not turn out well.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Religious, Children, Dedication

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Rivers, Ozone

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• Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up.

  Aya Kito

  Giving Up, Giving

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• I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away.

  Nicolas Cage

  People, Going Away, Happenings

  "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Real, Mean, People

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• Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

  Seth Godin

  Culture, Pessimistic, Thanks

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• Fear and caution are two different things. Be cautious - be conscious - but do not be fearful. Fear only paralyzes, while consciousness mobilizes. Be mobilized, not paralyzed.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Two, Different, Consciousness

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 3: Embracing the Love of the Universe (Anniv)”, p.12, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Liars, Love Is, Men

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• One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Hopeful

  Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2007.

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• In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

  Gail Sheehy

  Girlfriend, Children, Facts

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• It is ludicrous to believe that he meant nuclear weapons can be used. It is truly fearful to see how the mainstream media in the west can construct an adversary and that there are so few dissenting voices.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Believe, Media, Voice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To be fair, if we are having a mass extinction, we're in the early stages of it. I think it's knowing facts like that which has made me less fearful about the future. Mass extinction is a long, complicated process that we are just now beginning to understand - and likewise, we are just beginning to understand how we might prevent one.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Mass Extinction, Knowing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is a world of masters and serfs, a kind of permanent underclass. That's what's happening; that's what's being created. Rapacious corporate business interests have shattered all kinds of regulations and controls. They have carried out a coup d'etat in slow motion. And it's over; they've won.

  Chris Hedges

  World, Regulation, Slow Motion

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

  John Bradshaw

  Mets, Aggressive, Persons

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• You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold on to your chosen direction, your discipline, your prayer, your work, your guides, and trust that one day love will have conquered enough of you that even the most fearful part will allow love to cast out all fear.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Pain, Struggle

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• Europe is as fearful of Islam today as she has been in the past. She now knows that the strength of Islam (which in the past expressed that of the Arabs) has been reborn and has appeared in a new form: Arab nationalism.

  Michel Aflaq

  Past, Europe, Islam

  "On the Way of Resurrection". Book by Michel Aflaq, 1943.

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• How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

  Martin Luther

  Girl, Religious, Humor

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.325

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• From the   5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being   indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the   left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are   scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the   destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure,   thrills, and self-indulgence.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Philosophy, Father

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• Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Ifs

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• Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
  And makes it fearful and degenerate.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Mind, Degenerates

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.392, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If were honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you dont believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?

  Joseph Prince

  Believe, Needs, Honest

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• When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we but they are the germinators of future generations. Will they leave us behind as we did our parents? Consign us to neatly paved retirement villages? Trample us in the dust as they go flying out to their new galaxies? We had better tie them down, flagellate them, isolate them in the family cocoon, . . . indoctrinate them into the tribal laws and make sure they kneel before the power of the elders.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Retirement, Children, Dust

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• Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices and learning to enjoy sex. The other issue concerns the dangers girls face of being sexually assaulted. By late adolescence, most girls today either have been traumatized or know girls who have. They are fearful of males even as they are trying to develop intimate relations with them.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Sex, Self

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