“Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.”
— Ben Stein
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“I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.”
— Albert Ellis
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“I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.”
— Henry Cabot Lodge
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“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”
— George S. Patton
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“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.”
— Stanislav Grof
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“What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.”
— Saint Augustine
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“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.”
— Jack Kevorkian
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“My only fear is the unknown.”
— David Blaine
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“We fear the thing we want the most.”
— Robert Anthony
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