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Quote by Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of actin

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke

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Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog. – Robert Falcon Scott

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Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic. – Tippi Hedren

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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. – Sophocles

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To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because its very easy in this game to believe youre something special. – Keith Richards

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Its easy being a humorist when youve got the whole government working for you. – Will Rogers

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If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them. – Jim DeMint

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What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history? – Aẖad HaÊ¿am, 1902

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