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From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principl...

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Fear connotes something that interferes with what you’re doing.

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.

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John Green (author)Looking for Alaska

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear l...

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John Green (author)Looking for Alaska

I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. I...

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Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how...

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Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasi...

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The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my l...

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The craven's fear is but selfishness like his merriment.

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

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John Kennedy TooleA Confederacy of Dunces

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. Wh...

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Fear is an uneasiness of the mind upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to yo...

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Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed ...

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Where no hope is left is left no fear.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the...

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John ScalziThe Sagan Diary

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his...

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John ScalziThe Sagan Diary

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a d...

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Courage and fear were one thing too.

She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place ...

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John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath

Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gra...

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Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing ...

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, f...

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Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not wh...

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I didn't doubt the potential value of paying attention to subconscious cues...problem was, my inner ...

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Jon KrakauerInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

The spirit of bondage works by fear for the slave fears the rod: but love cries, Abba, Father; it di...

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We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of ne...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can le...

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We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to exist...

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In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need...

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What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

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It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence g...

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being f...

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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virt...

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[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, beca...

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Joseph CampbellThou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

How does one kill fear I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart slash off its spectr...

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How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart slash off its spectral hea...

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its ...

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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make he...

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectr...

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This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on...

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Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestio...

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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exi...

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...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide t...

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I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His in...

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If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humank...

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Julia CameronFinding Water: The Art of Perseverance

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yo...

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Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afra...

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I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs...

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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, exc...

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Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out...

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He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They...

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I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erect...

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When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen ...

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Karen ArmstrongThe Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

Oh, my goodness,” said Louisiana. “I’m just all filled up with feathers and regrets. And fears. I ha...

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Kate DiCamilloRaymie Nightingale

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

Sometimes when I felt the eyes crawling on me from all sides, I got scared thinking someone was look...

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To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

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Katherine PatersonBridge to Terabithia

My sister travels with me, and she's the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I tr...

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But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of ...

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Kay Redfield JamisonAn Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from...

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The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what wa...

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True courage is in facing damger when you are afraid.

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the...

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Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weaknes...

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The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wo...

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It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It alwa...

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Fear is the brother of hate.

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, ...

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It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Mach...

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Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of ha...

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Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every rul...

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Laurell K. HamiltonNarcissus in Chains

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightenin...

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I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better ...

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I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

Deep faith eliminates fear.

We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentime...

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There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like th...

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Leo TolstoyWar and Peace

Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame.

Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.

What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!"I wish I knew!" t...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, ...

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People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

One day, as Sarita tended to the wash, Gemma played in the garden. She was a knight, you see, with a...

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It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.