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Fear

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – James A. Michener

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. – Robert Fulghum

When desire dies, fear is born. – Baltasar Gracian

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives. – Gary Busey

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty. – David Hume

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. – Jean de la Bruyere

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. – Henry Louis Gates

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. – Doug Coupland

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. – Julia Ward Howe

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it. – Christian Nestell Bovee

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it. – Homer

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. – Kathie Lee Gifford

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis. – Brad Henry

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. – Andrew Jackson

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. – Nikos Kazantzakis

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes. – Robert Kiyosaki

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. – William Shenstone

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose. – Wayne Rooney

Let us banish fear. – Carter G. Woodson

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. – Publilius Syrus