"Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most."
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"Realists do not fear the results of their study."
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"Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death."
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"Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear."
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"The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea."
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"There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?"
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"If you are not afriad, thereis no way you will get mad at me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will hate me. If you are not afraid, there is no way you will be jealous or sad."
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"I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied."
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"We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn't cos we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had...or he wasted it on something else."
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"If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life."
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"Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene."
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"We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid."
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"The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist."
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"Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."
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"All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid."
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"Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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"There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him."
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"The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility."
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"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'"
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