#feared

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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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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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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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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Death is feared as birth is forgotten. ↗

— Douglas Horton

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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

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An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all. ↗

— Jimmy Johnson

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In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

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