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Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.
Portia de Rossi
Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
Yousef Munayyer
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold H. Glasow
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
Anna Quindlen
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell
I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
David Brainerd
'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.
Corey Hart
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
Swedish Proverb
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
George Eliot
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
Polly Toynbee
The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Brendan Francis
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.
Jodi Picoult
Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.
Benjamin Franklin
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
Victor Hugo
Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.
Maria Shriver
