“ The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. ”
- Bernice Johnson Reagon- Copy
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“ Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. ”
- Felix Frankfurter- Copy
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“ It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his discontent does in fact paralyze his power of appreciating what he has got. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable. ”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick- Copy
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“ Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens. ”
- Arthur Gordon- Copy
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“ Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you. ”
- Harvey Mackay- Copy
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“ So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itselfameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory… ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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