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Sides are being divided now. It is very obvious. So if you are on the other side of the fence, you are suddenly anti-American. It is breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

You do not want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You do not want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that is spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

Action conquers fear.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we are going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I have done some damn good here!

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

The only men who aren't in fear of women is reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that is why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - Do one thing every day that scares you - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I do not believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

I am grateful that I did not let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.