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• Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

  Pema Chodron

  Thinking, People, No Fear

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Odds

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, David M Gross

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• I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer. My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Stress, Cancer, Believe

  "Rippin’ & tearin’ & strippin’". Interview with Joey DiGuglielmo, www.washingtonblade.com. June 13, 2013.

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• I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Race, People, Support

  Speech in Bennington, Vermont, September 21, 1928.

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• It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wise, Enough, Staying

  Patrick Rothfuss (2014). “The Slow Regard of Silent Things”, p.10, Penguin

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• A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal-interest.

  Khem Veasna

  Men, Dare, Interest

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• Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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• When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.

  Joe Torre

  Brother, Teenager, Team

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• CeNation. In Austin, TX, preparing to perfrom for members of our military. In that vein, I would like to let the Rough Riders Platoon know that even though they are going through a difficult time, with brave soliders making the ultimate sacrifice, to keep their heads up, hearts strong, and know that all of them are in my thoughts. Never Give Up.

  John Cena

  Strong, Giving Up, Military

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• It's the moment when you know that you can have what you want if you're only brave enough to say so. It's a split second when everything can change, but you pussy out because you're too afraid to risk the rejection.

  Penelope Douglas

  Rejection, Risk, Pussy

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• None but the brave can live with the fair.

  Kin Hubbard

  Attractiveness, Fairs

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• Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Weapons, Shields, Violence

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• Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

  Emilie Autumn

  Mean, Fighting, Winning

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• Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Victory, Lasts

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Never complain. When I did, my mother said that if I didn’t like my life, I could just give up and die. She reminded me that when I was inside her, I told her that I wanted to be born, so she delivered me, breastfed me and changed my diapers. She said that I had to be brave.

  Hiroo Onoda

  Mother, Giving Up, Complaining

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• When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.

  Louis L'Amour

  Lying, Believe, Animal

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Ride the Dark Trail”, p.70, Bantam

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• Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

  James Russell Lowell

  Father, Men, Slavery

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.52

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• One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

  Gunter Grass

  Fear, Mistake, Enough

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• The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.

  Jose Marti

  Justice, Bravery, Victory

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• I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

  Bertice Berry

  Home, Land, Addiction

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• If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Live Life, Bravery, Dies

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• Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Be Brave, Enough

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• Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Science, One Day

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• Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

  Homer

  Fighting, Fate, Men

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

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• Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Doe, Favors

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.43, Applewood Books

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