- People
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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
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House.
- Freedom From
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality' for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be.
- Rush
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in fear that other engineers would stop me in the street and ask me a math question, and I wouldn't know the answer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
- Nostalgia
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is one of the elements of nonlethal weaponry. You're going to get hurt, and you don't want to get hurt. Pepper spray hurts. You don't want to be sprayed. That's why it's a useful deterrent as a nonlethal weapon - I'm not advocating spraying people randomly.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020