- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear Quotes
Fear fades fastest when it's named directly.
This collection pairs personal courage with public conviction - resolve around national security, wariness of concentrated institutional power, and the belief that a government secure in itself should welcome, not dread, criticism. Related reading in Fearless Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm afraid of something, I'm going at it twice as hard. I don't believe any fear can be conquered by avoiding it.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking.
- Nov 07, 2020
To our enemies - to our enemies - we will pursue you as only America can. You will fear us.
- Complacency
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- Nov 07, 2020
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
- Nov 07, 2020
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
- Framers
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a fear among the original framers that the federal government would be so strong that they might destroy the state militias.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even now, I still get a bit apprehensive before a game because I am worried about whether I have done enough preparation or if something is going to catch me out. But the fear factor has gone - as it should have done by now, really, after nearly 50 years.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020