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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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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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