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"I didn't know if I was brave or reckless."
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"A brave heart doesn't pump coward's blood."
"You must refuse to succumb to every ungodliness and injustice."
"Breaking from the herd is better than getting lost in it."
"Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe."
"There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming."
"There is no way to counterfeit courage, we either have it or we do not."
"Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never realizing that strength and courage is found in both."
"When you face fear head on, it is no more!"
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"I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen."
"Death is not a pretty flower that had almost pricked me. It was not a small annoyance I could simply bypass and quickly disregard. It was really The End."
"I made a conscious effort to name my needs and desires. To carefully listen to and accurately identify what I felt. Hunger, exhaustion, cold, lower-back ache, thirst. The ephemeral pangs: wistfulness and loneliness. Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament."
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