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robin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:37 -0800

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."

— H.P. Lovecraft

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robin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:37 -0800

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."

— Coleridge

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robin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:37 -0800

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

— Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear

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robin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:37 -0800

"A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises."

— Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (414-12 BC)

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robin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:37 -0800

"He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all"

— James Graham - Marquis of Montrose

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robin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:37 -0800

"The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

— FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

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robin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:37 -0800

"I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me."

— Will - Macbeth

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robin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:37 -0800

"One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love."

— Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent (1939)

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robin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:37 -0800

"Being frightened is an experience you can't buy."

— Anthony Price - Sion Crossing (1984)

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robin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:37 -0800

"What are fears but voices airy?
Whispering harm where harm is not.
And deluding the unwary
Till the fatal bolt is shot!"

— Wordsworth