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Fears and Phobias.

Star Wars tone poem "Fear" with Darth Maul.

Karen Thompson Walker: What Fear Can Teach Us

"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe read by Sir Christopher Lee

"The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave."  - James A. LaFond-Lewis

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." 
- Bertrand Russell

"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends." 
- Shirley MacLaine

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." 
- Julia Sorel

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do." 
- Henry Ford

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." 
- Ambrose Redmoon

"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." 
- Mark Twain

"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death." 
- Betty Bender

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out." 
- Benjamin Franklin

"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself." 
- Hermione Granger (J. K. Rowling)

"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be." 
- Lactantius

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." 
- Mark Twain

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." 
- Dorothy Bernard

"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." 
- James Stephens

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." 
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe as presented by The Simpsons.

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