Fear

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  • Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
        Horace Smith   Best?
  • What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars fortell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
        Queen Elizabeth   Best?
  • Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
        David Ben Gurion   Best?
  • Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
        Dwight D. Eisenhower   Best?
  • Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Best?
  • You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.
        J. A. Spender   Best?
  • Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
        Benjamin Disraeli   Best?
  • Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
        Marianne Williamson   Best?
  • Step with care and great tact
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
        Eleanor Roosevelt   Best?
  • A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
        Demosthenes   Best?
  • Above all things, reverence yourself.
        Pythagoras   Best?
  • Shake off all the 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   Best?
  • ...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Biography lends to death a new terror.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
        Harry S. Truman   Best?
  • There is a fine line between fear and hate. And the only fear that is reasonable, is fear.
        Kenny Kelly   Best?
  • How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?
        Robert Mallet   Best?
  • To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
        Alfred Lord Tennyson   Best?
  • Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
        Albert Schweitzer   Best?
  • Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
        Michael Crichton   Best?
  • While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
        Arthur C. Clarke   Best?
  • I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
        John Kerry   Best?
  • 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   Best?

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