Alan Paton Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
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When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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He had the kind of handshake that ought never to be used except as a tourniquet.
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Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
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You know my eyes are not very strong. So every day to make them stronger I force myself to look at the sun. I find it very hard. But do you know what I find harder? That is to look into the blue of your eyes.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
