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Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it’s involved in somebody else’s life and they’re close to me, I won’t be around them.
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Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
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I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
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Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
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Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.
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The Feminist Me says that a woman’s right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.
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The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
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I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
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A man’s primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I’ve seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I’ve never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That’s amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that’s being taken apart.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
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Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
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At first I wasn’t sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
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I like to do something I fear.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I’m not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
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Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.