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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male. ↗

— Bill Bixby

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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

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If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. ↗

— Neil LaBute

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Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction. ↗

— James Buchan

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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi. ↗

— Dick Gregory

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I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

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