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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

—Joseph Joubert

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If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

—Henri Nouwen

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You have to learn to be unafraid when you’re a nobody, because you’re going to be really fucking afraid when you’re a somebody and all the lights are on you.

—Lady Gaga

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I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

—J. D. Salinger

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

—John Cage

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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

—H. L. Mencken

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

—Marie Curie

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There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.

—Agatha Christie in The Moving Finger

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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.

—Veronica Roth in Allegiant

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If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.

—John Alejandro King

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

—Stewart Udall

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When you have to hide who you really are to the world, you create a shell around yourself over time. A painted on coating of lies. It becomes your shield…and your prison.

—Selena Kitt in Grace

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again. … The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

—J. G. Ballard

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

—Harold Wilson

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Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.

—Carlos A. Urbizo

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