"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."

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"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."

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"We can overcome the uncertainties in life with courage and hope."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It's too risky", said doubters. "It's too difficult", said scoffers. "It's pointless", said mockers. "It's impossible", said haters. "It's already done", said believers."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"Fear is not respect. It is but a conniving, little weasel next to that mighty lion. They are a far, far cry from the same animal."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"When you break rules, break 'em good and hard."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"A mighty storm is inconsequential when facing a mighty ship."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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"We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful."

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"I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world."

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"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."

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"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

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"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."

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"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

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"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."

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"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers."

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"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

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