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I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them. ↗

— Howard Coble

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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. ↗

— Confucius

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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut. ↗

— Joe Henderson

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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break. ↗

— Herodotus

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The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

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