Once they've hit on what they think is a good idea, many entrepreneurs keep it to themselves, fearful that others might steal it.
Whether purposely done or not, an age-old way to secure power and keep it is to keep a country fearful, aggressive, xenophobic and at war.
But the way to control a large, stratified, fearful population is to keep it uneducated.
A similar resolution passed by a slightly wider margin in 2007, but the Bush administration, fearful of losing Turkish cooperation over Iraq, lobbied forcefully to keep it from reaching the House floor.
From its broken front door to the stairwell leading to its desolate, trash-strewn roof, there was already enough about the Wise Towers housing project on the Upper West Side to keep its residents fearful and on edge.
Iraq is a sort of daily 9/11 that keeps America fearful and keeps it marching, however disenchanted, to the president's beat.
"We are always afraid, they like to keep us fearful.
When wolves approach people, rangers shoot them with rubber bullets and beanbags to keep them fearful of humans.
Kim has sent a message to the elites who keep him in power through a series of executions and purges that keep everyone fearful that they will be next.
Roy asks him "whether the N.S.A. was just feigning annoyance at his revelations but might actually be secretly pleased at being known as the All Seeing, All Knowing Agency because that would help keep people fearful, off balance".
Roy asks him "whether the N.S.A. was just feigning annoyance at his revelations but might actually be secretly pleased at being known as the All Seeing, All Knowing Agency because that would help keep people fearful, off balance". We aren't told Snowden's response to this or to any number of other questions.
