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How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

Shirin Ebadi

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Shirin Ebadi
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 21
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