"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him."
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"That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without."
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"Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid."
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"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"
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"Fear loves the idea of danger."
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"Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life."
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"The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything."
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"We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest."
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"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt."
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"The thing I fear most is fear."
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"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."
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"Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted."
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"...find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power."
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"The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image."
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"Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love."
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"I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe."
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"I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing."
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"Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby."
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"One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'"
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"It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register."
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