"Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear."
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"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."
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"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
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"A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it."
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
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"When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that."
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"Fear is a greater evil than evil itself."
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"We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them..."
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
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"We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate."
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"I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!"
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"Do what you fear and your fear will die."
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"Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]"
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"Have the courage to act instead of react."
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"Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear."
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"It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually."
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"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."
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"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
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"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
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"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
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