"Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Courage, Truth, Life, Humanity

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"Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not."

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"You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"True kindness is evidence of true courage."

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"If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Life begins at the edge of your fears."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Don't fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Fear is unnecessary cargo when sailing to success."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"He, who fails to acknowledge and appreciate the real courage of our fathers, fails to appreciate the real lessons that the courage of our fathers teaches us today! The courage and the wisdom that propelled our fathers to move unrelentingly in their days must be nothing to us, but, a real reason for us to be more than courageous enough to do the undone distinctively in our days."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Do I dare Disturb the universe?"

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."

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"Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex."

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"One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex."

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"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."

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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

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"Not everything happens for a reason, we claim that it does for a reason: to console ourselves."

Philosophy

"The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you."

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"You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing."

"True kindness is evidence of true courage."

"If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible."

"Life begins at the edge of your fears."

"Don't fear to sing alone. If your song is right and melodies are touching, listeners will appear."

"Fear is unnecessary cargo when sailing to success."

"We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."

"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."

"Do I dare Disturb the universe?"

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"There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of women that he is convinced he is in love with, or, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman."

"Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex."

"One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex."

"Some men do not know the father of 'their' children."

"Some people aren't really light-teethed, they're merely dark-skinned."

"We seldom look up to the person, we usually look up to their persona."

"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."

"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

"Not everything happens for a reason, we claim that it does for a reason: to console ourselves."

"The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you."