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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
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
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If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
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Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
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