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"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
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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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"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
History
"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
Wisdom
"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
Experience
"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike."
Time
"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
Mind
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
Art
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."
Meaning
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
Thought
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
Business
"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
Philosophy
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