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Fear

Alarm, dismay, horror, panic, terror

QUOTES

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure-house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
 Marilyn Ferguson
 

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
 Ambrose Redmon
 

Whom they fear, they hate.
 Quintus Ennius
 -200

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
 Eric Hoffer
 

See Also Courage

References

History
  • Roman process of decimation
  • Roman crucifxion of criminals
  • English custom of posting traitors' heads on London Bridge

    Arts & Science

  • Movies: High Noon, Jaws, Silence of the Lambs, any horror movie

    Literature

  • Robert Cormier: I am the Cheese
  • Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans
  • John Knowles: A Separate Peace




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