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Bombastic pronouncements are expected on the anniversary of terrorist incidents like Sept. 11, ... was meant to instill fear, and fear is the most potent weapon terrorists possess.


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JIM RYUN The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
STEVE BIKO The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
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MARILYN MANSON To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind.
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MONTY PYTHON Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.
JOHN DOOLITTLE We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.
WARREN EYSTER The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
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BRUCE SMITH Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
MARK TWAIN The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their grea...
GEORGE W. BUSH This terrorist enemy knows we cannot be defeated by him, but he is focused on winning the battle of ...
CRAIG THOMAS The thing of which I have most fear is fear.
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RACHEL NAOMI REMEN The thing I fear most is fear.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The thing I fear most is fear.
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SOSUKE AIZEN Fear not to err,for perfection is meant for the aliens.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to overcome the thing you greatly fear is by learning never to leave the thing you fear al...
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LAO-TZU Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When yo...
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JAMES A. LAFOND-LEWIS As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not...
BRANDON SANDERSON We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of...
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HEINRICH HIMMLER Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ul...
ECKHART TOLLE This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's th...
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ALLAN STEINFELD The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
DOROTHY THOMPSON Fear is the foundation of most government.
JOHN ADAMS Fear is the foundation of most governments.
JOHN ADAMS I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends bec...
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KENNY ANDERSON It's absolutely impossible to quantify the impact of Sept. 11.
DAN CULLOTON Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of t...
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WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE