"We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer distinction between the true and the false, between the man of the future and the cowardly gods you revere."

Courage, Fight, Distinction, Energy, Strength

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"We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer distinction between the true and the false, between the man of the future and the cowardly gods you revere."

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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

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"Only cowards leave words unspoken."

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"Live dangerously and you live right."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

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"Sometimes, despite how your heart feels, you have to do what you must in order to get the result you need. When it's impossible to walk away then you need to make it hurt and they will walk away for you."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he's out there, and he's clearly not going to leave you alone until one of three things happens: he hurts you and gets arrested, or he makes a mistake and gets arrested, or you stop him."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

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"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn't take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing."

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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

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"If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

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"Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original."

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"There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide."

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"But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it multiplies like reason itself and assumes all the aspects of the syllogism. Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law."

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"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."

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"If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent."

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"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."

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"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."

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"I didn't like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea."

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