#afraid

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

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I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night. ↗

— Nelson Gidding

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A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. ↗

— James Harrington

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Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. ↗

— William Randolph Hearst

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Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

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People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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No, I was never afraid. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type. ↗

— Jack Welch

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Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. ↗

— Lou Brock

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I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action. ↗

— James Broughton

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