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"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage."
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"The distance between you and your destination can be set to zero only by your courage to act and by your determination to sustain this action till the end!"
"Be as fierce as a lion. Let the world hear you roar."
"Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear!"
"We don't move with our legs and arms, but with courage and will power."
"The less courage you have, the more dwarf you shall be; the more courage you have, the more giant you shall be!"
"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."
"I don't so much mind looking back on having lost the election, or having been denied a role in the play, or having had my novel repeatedly rejected, or having been turned down for a date, or recalling laughter at my expense when I attempted some silly challenge. Those things simply prove that I lived life. What I do mind, however, is looking back on the lost opportunities where imagined concerns kept me from even trying-lose or win. I've learned that there is no regret in a brave attempt, only in cowering to fear."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
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"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."
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