"Courage is a peculiar kind of fear."
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"Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds."
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"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."
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"Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure."
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"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."
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"If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic."
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"The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift."
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"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."
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"A frightened captain makes a frightened crew."
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"Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself."
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"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
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"To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. Always do what you are afraid to do."
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"If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing."
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"Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself."
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"Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it."
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"I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals."
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"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
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"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?"
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"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws."
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"Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear."
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