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Erma Bombeck

"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."

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"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."

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"Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water."

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"I noticed that volcanoes, earthquakes and floods, though are not good events, they are better than the silence of good people when bad people take the podium. The latter are to an extent uncontrollable, but the former can be stopped."

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"Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord."

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"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."

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"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them."

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"Be bold, speak from your heart."

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"By faith we will become strong and withstand the spiritual battle warring against us."

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"A man who is not ready to risk is not worthy of getting promotion."

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"Only cowards leave words unspoken."

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"Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all."

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