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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I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt – Gordon Browns legacy to millions of Britains families – will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come. – Vince Cable

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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. – J. K. Rowling

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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal 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

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Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. – Lech Walesa

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