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 | "All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won"t have
to be afraid all the time. Only one thing stops me. A promise I
made." | |
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| "An ugly sight, a man who is afraid." | |
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Jean Anouilh
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| "Be scared. You can"t help that. But don"t be afraid. Ain"t nothing
in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you
are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the
same as a brave man has got to be." | |
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William Faulkner
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| "Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?" | |
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Jonathan Swift
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| "Don"t be afraid to be amazing." | |
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Andy Offutt Irwin
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| "Don?t be afraid to go out on a limb. That?s where the fruit
is." | |
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Arthur F. Lenenhan
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| "Don?t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never
begin." | |
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Grace Hansen
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| "He was dying, and his wife had just said that she was afraid of what
was about to happen. There"s no need to be." | |
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James S. Conner
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| "I am devilishly afraid, that?s certain; but ... I?ll sing, that I
may seem valiant." | |
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John Dryden
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| "I"m afraid you"ve got a bad egg, Mr. Jones, Oh no, my Lord, I assure
you! Parts of it are excellent!" | |
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Punch
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| "It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word." | |
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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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| "It"s not that I"m afraid to die. I just don"t want to be there when
it happens." | |
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Woody Allen
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| "Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the
strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the
rich." | |
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Alan Paton
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| "Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth ? more than ruin
? more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary,
destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established
institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell
and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the
world, and the chief glory of man." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin,
more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary,
destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established
institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell
and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the
world, and the chief glory of man." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "More frayd then hurt." | |
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John Heywood
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| "Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid
of." | |
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Robert Charles Benchley
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| "The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every
crime." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "There"s nothing I"m afraid of like scared people." | |
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Robert Frost
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| "Too many of us stay walled up because we are afraid of being hurt.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not
care at all." | |
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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| "We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and
afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "We are what we are, wherever we are." | |
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Richard L. Evans
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| "We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are." | |
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Earl J. Glade
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| "We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to
live, and afraid to die." | |
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Jean de la Bruyere
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| "We tell lies when we are afraid, ... afraid of what we don"t know,
afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about
us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows
stronger." | |
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Tad Williams
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| "We weep when we are born, Not when we die!" | |
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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| "Whenever we"re afraid, its because we don"t know enough. If we
understood enough, we would never be afraid." | |
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Earl Nightingale
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| "Who is more foolish ? the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid
of the light?" | |
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Maurice Freehill
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| "Who"s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" | |
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Edward Albee
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