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		I felt myself in the presence of something enormously big, as if a small barbarian was desecrating the colossal Zeus of Pheidias with a coal hammer. But I also felt it inhuman, and I hated it, and I clung to that hatred. 'You fear nothing and you believe nothing,' I said. 'Man, you should never have been allowed to live.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Buchan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Her shoulders sagging, her back hunched, her eyelids tired, Rose-Anna sewed for the feast, not daring even to sing for fear of frightening off her joy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gabrielle Roy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida. But he still says so. And thus, gripping firmly these figments of his own imagination, Mr. Cheney lives on, in defiance, and spreads - around him and before him - darkness, like some contagion of fear. They are never wrong, and they never regret - admirable in a French torch singer, cataclysmic in an American leader.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Keith Olbermann
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gary Kemp
			
			
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		Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Patrick Rothfuss
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Evers
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				T. D. Jakes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andy Whitfield
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.' 'Which is where?' 'To a responsible future in a properly managed world.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dean Koontz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The heart which, like a staff, was one For mine to lean and rest upon, The strongest on the longest day With steadfast love, is caught away, And yet my days go on, go on.And cold before my summer's done, And deaf in Nature's general tune, And fallen too low for special fear, And here, with hope no longer here, While the tears drop, my days go on.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth Barrett Browning
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger - or this week in San Bernardino by fear - and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth Esty
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Bovard