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"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
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"Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story."

"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily - as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable."

"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."

"Sometimes walking away has nothing do with weakness, and everything to do with strength. We walk away not because we want others to realize our worth and value, but because we finally realize our own."
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"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."

"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."

"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."

"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."

"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."
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