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What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another. ↗

— Virgil

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We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. ↗

— Jean Toomer

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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work. ↗

— Lars von Trier

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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful. ↗

— Lars von Trier

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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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I have a fearless but neutral personality. ↗

— Yani Tseng

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Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

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Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives. ↗

— Christy Turlington

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