Like every emotion, fear is contagious.

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Fear, he believes, was Golding's sharpest emotion, the fear of writing itself being one of the worst.

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In the fall, as the re-entry date approaches the emotion is usually fear.

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

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Fear is a potent emotion that serves to protect us from pain and harm.

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Whether the emotion is anger, euphoria or fear, it triggers neurotransmitter changes that kick the brain into a hyper-alert state.

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Accept the discomfort, get deeply into it, picture what it looks like and slowly, like an onion, the underlying emotion will surface which is commonly fear, anger, envy, shame, a feeling of inferiority etc.

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Fear was like any other emotion.

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Fear is both a potent and indispensable emotion.

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The other, the "speculative element, " is driven by sentiment and emotion: hope and greed and thrill-seeking in bull markets, fear and regret and revulsion in bear markets.

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