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		But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pearl Cleage
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In Western capitalism circa 2013, fear that the market economy has become dysfunctional is not limited to a few entrepreneurs in Boulder. It is being publicly expressed, with increasing frequency, by some of the people who occupy the commanding heights of the global economy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chrystia Freeland
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John McAfee
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. C. Ryle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alexander Lowen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It doesn't matter if you're a Victoria's Secret model or you're someone's 90-year-old grandma or you're a little kid who's getting bullied or you're that kid's bully - everybody feels like there's something going on that's more correct than what is. We all have to reach out to one another in that fear, and we'd be surprised to hear, 'Me, too.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Keala Settle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrew Marr
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Homer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Men are always the same. Fear makes them cruel.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				W. Somerset Maugham
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Henry David Thoreau
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving...
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Don Henley
			
			
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		A lot of people don't like to spend money on a journal because they're afraid to wreck it, which is understandable. I buy beautifully made leather-bound journals because I have lost my fear of the blank page.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Keri Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joel Barlow
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gautama Buddha
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anton Chekhov
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tacitus
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dave Winer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alan Paton