But it seems that as a nation, we are afraid to have that conversation.
The world is changing so fast and yet we are afraid of change.
We are afraid of excessive debt, taxes, spending, monetary expansion, and inflation.
Often, we are afraid to move beyond the limits of our adapted, adopted and inherited ideas of who we are and what is available to us.
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"We are afraid to return to the camp, because armed men may come back to attack us, " Fatima Adam Badaui, a woman from the Kassab camp, told UNAMID.
"We are afraid it will be attacked, but ... we don't have another place to run, " said Lana, who asked that her last name not be used because of security concerns.
"We are afraid money will be taken from our companies, and afraid that taxes will increase a lot and the situation will become bad for companies our size , " she says.
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We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we persist in self-centeredness.
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"On balance, it would be better to do this and face up to the possible difficulties of dealing with a hostile audience of cranks and fanatics rather than the alternative risk of leaving the field to the fanatics and giving the impression that we are afraid to stand up to questions, " concluded officials.
Maybe this is because we are too afraid to let go of the traditional "man-brings-home-the-bacon-and-the-woman-fries-it-in-the-pan" mentality.
"We are not afraid of the reality of the Syrian story, " he said.
"We hear speakers warning us about the cyclone, but we are still afraid, " said Ba Kyi, a Muslim community worker at a clinic in Sittwe.
Now Susan Antilla, financial journalist at Bloomberg, affirms for us what we already know but are afraid to acknowledge lest we be branded whiners.
But now we are a bit afraid because of our kids and our households.
Are we so afraid of repeating the dot-com and telecom bubbles that we've written off entrepreneurs for a generation?
Yet smitten with technology, we are like young lovers who are afraid that too much talking will spoil the romance.
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We had no power for two weeks, and now I'm afraid we are going to lose it again.
"Now we are a little bit afraid, " Gruszecki said.
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We have accomplished women who are afraid to put their hand up for journalistic op-ed assignments.
"We are willing to speak truthfully, even if others are afraid to, " writes Sabrina Strong in her recent blog post.
As a nation we are blessed with a talent for being individuals who are not afraid to stick out from the crowd.
The Russians are afraid of us because we really know how to do business.
We need to start looking for the good that comes from aggressiveness and find out why we, as a nation, are so afraid of trying to harness it.
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