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"There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage."
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"Olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot so that he would not be too afraid before they hit the earth. She smiled and nodded again. At the end of each stunt he looked back, and each time she encouraged him. Afterward he said over and over, "She's the goddamest woman I ever saw. I tore up the rule book and she wanted more. Good Christ, what a pilot she would have made!"
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"You needn't be afraid of life! Life is so good when you do something that is good and just."
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"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there."
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"Courage leads you to win battles everyone may lose."
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"Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult."
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"As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected."
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"If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting."
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"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
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"If I've learned anything from my past and my present, it's the power of fear. You can give your subjects all the generosity in the world, and still they will demand more. But those who are afraid don't fight back. I know this well enough."
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"I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running."
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"Grammar, which knows how to control even kings."
Control
"A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house."
Pet
"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."
Error
"All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing."
History
"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."
Behavior
"He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure."
Peace
"The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them."
Men
"Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion."
Gallantry
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."
Money
"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing."
Nothing
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