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"Have the courage to act instead of react."
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"Don't be afraid to fall into the sea. Close your eyes and jump, for you will fall on the back of a big fish which will carry you to your destination."
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"Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid."
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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."
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"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."
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"I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one."
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"That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us."
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"Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!"
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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
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"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
God

"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
Thought

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Man

"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
Man

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Friendship

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
Love

"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
Home

"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
Thought

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
Education

"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."
Time
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