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"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact."	James Truslow Adams
"The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."	Joseph Addison
"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain."	Æschylus
"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder."	Æschylus
"Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear."	Aesop
"In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God."	James Agee
"Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. (Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.)"	Caspar de Aguilar
"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."	Howard Aiken
"Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly; the chances are, it's holding you too."	Bob Alberti
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."	Louisa May Alcott
"Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers."	Rodan of Alexandria
"Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life."	Saul David Alinsky
"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."	Woody Allen
"General Grant had a simple, childlike [recipe] for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too."	Sherwood Anderson
"Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."	Maya Angelou
"'Come to the edge,' He said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' He said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew."	Guillaume Apollinaire
"Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people."	Aristotle
"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."	Isaac Asimov
"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."	Isaac Asimov
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."	Lady Nancy Astor
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Aesop	Al Capone	Albert Camus
Albert Einstein	Aldous Huxley	Ambrose Bierce
Amelia Earhart	André Gide	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Aristotle	Arsenio Hall	Author Unknown
Ayn Rand	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti	A. E. Houseman
Barbara Garrison	Bart Simpson	Belva Davis
Benjamin Disraeli	Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
Bertrand Russell	Betty Bender	Betty Naomi Friedan
Bhagavad Gita	Billy Joel	Bob Alberti
Brendan Francis	Buddha	Caspar de Aguilar
Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Langbridge Morgan	Clarence Darrow
Confucius	Cyril Connolley	Dale Carnegie
Dante Alighieri	David Ben-Gurion	David Lloyd George
Deepak K. Chopra	Doug Larson	Douglas MacArthur
Dr. David M. Burns	Dr. Thomas Fuller	Earl Nightingale
Edgar Watson Howe	Edgar Albert Guest	Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
Edmund Burke	Edward Abbey	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
Elbert Hubbard	Elmer Holmes Davis	Epictetus
Erica Jong	Erica Mann Jong	Eric Hoffer
Franklin P. Jones	Friedrich Nietzsche	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Gaius Julius Caesar	General Thomas Jonathon [Stonewall] Jackson	George Bernard Shaw
George Eliot	George Orwell	George Patton
George Santayana	George Gordon Byron	George Walker Bush
Grace Hansen	Guillaume Apollinaire	G Gaia
Hamilton Mabie	Harper Lee	Harry Homes
Helen Adams Keller	Helen Gahagan Douglas	Henry Ford
Henry Anatole Grunwald	Henry Van Dyke	Herbert Fenstermeim
Howard Aiken	H. Jackson Browne	H. Stanley Judd
Indira Nehru Gandhi	Isaac Asimov	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Agee	James Arthur Baldwin	James Branch Cabell
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Francis Byrnes	James Truslow Adams
Jane Austen	Jean Baudrillard	Jean de La Fontaine
Jerry Gillies	Jimi Hendrix	Joe Moore
John Donne	John McCain	John Dryden
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Foster Dulles	John Henry Newman
John Herschel Glenn, Jr.	John Newton	Joseph Addison
Joseph Conrad	Josh Billings	Joshua 1:9 Bible
J(ames) William Fulbright	Kahlil Gibran	Karl Marx
Lactantius	Lady Nancy Astor	Lao-Tzu
Leo Tolstoy	Leonardo da Vinci	Leon Blum
Lewis Grizzard	Lloyd Douglas	Lord Billingsley
Lori Hard	Lorraine Hansberry	Louisa May Alcott
Lucille Ball	Ludwig Wittgenstein	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Mahatma Gandhi	Mao Zedong	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Marie Curie	Marilyn Ferguson	Mark Twain
Mary Manin Morrissey	Maurice Freehill	Max Beerbohm
Max Ehrmann	Maya Angelou	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Mignon McLaughlin	Miguel de Cervantes	Mike Tyson
Missy Good	Nadine Gordimer	Napolean Bonaparte
Napolean Hill	Napoleon Bonaparte	Napoleon I
Niccolo Machiavelli	Orrin Hatch	Oscar Wilde
Oswald Chambers	Peter Medawar	Peter T. McIntyre
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ray Dickinson
Richard Baxter	Richard Jordan	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Browning	Robert Frost	Robert G. Ingersoll
Robert Albert Bloch	Robert Elwood Bly	Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Jones Burdette	Robert Lee Frost	Robyn Davidson
Rodan of Alexandria	Roger John	Ronald David Laing
Ross Hersey	R. I. Fitzhenry	Saul David Alinsky
Sherwood Anderson	Shirley MacLaine	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Walter Besant	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sri da Avabhas
Stephen King	Susan Jeffers	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard
Terry Goodkind	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Paine
Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Hobbes	Thomas Merton
Titus Livius	Tom Daschle	T. S. Eliot
Vannevar Bush	Victor Hugo	William Blake
William Hazlitt	William James	William Jennings Bryan
William Cowper	William James "Will" Durant	William J. Locke
William Wister Haines	Woody Allen	(Carl) Frederick Buechner
(Makataimeshekiakiak) Black Hawk	Æschylus