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- I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
- Joan Didion (1934 - )
- Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
- Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
- Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
- Michael Pritchard
- The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), 1890
- Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950
- Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
- Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
- George Sewell
- Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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