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• Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

  John Milton

  Learning, Men, Age

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.277

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• These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Honesty, Integrity

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.115

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• It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.

  George McGovern

  Military, War, Fighting

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• Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

  Cheri Huber

  Inspiration, Tasks, Conquer

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• When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.

  Cheri Huber

  Children, Inspiration, Adults

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• Four in a row! We are overwhelmed with gratitude. This remarkable achievement is a testament to the bravery of our clients and the creativity of our teams around the world.

  Tham Khai Meng

  Gratitude, Team, Creativity

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• While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Issues, Endeavor

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• You need bravery because in the picture of soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful.

  Amit Ray

  Beautiful, Soul, Needs

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• Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Order, Hollywood

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.317, Crown Forum

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• You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

  Marcus Garvey

  Mistake, Noise, Lips

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.219, The Majority Press

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• Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia.

  Samuel Johnson

  Philosophy, Thinking, Past

  'A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' (1775) 'Inch Kenneth'

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• The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Integrity, Character

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Knowing, Satire, Danger

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

  Sophie Turner

  Believe, Stand Up For Yourself, World Affairs

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• It takes a lot of bravery to be authentic and honest and to take that social mask off in order to connect with another human being. So much of what makes us who we are is smoothed away online. And what truly connects us is the wrinkles, not the smoothness.

  Taylor Schilling

  Wrinkles, Order, Who We Are

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• You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

  John Cassavetes

  Honesty, Pain, Intuition

  "Opening Night" by Peter Bogdanovich, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2011.

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• The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

  Gillian Roberts

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Gillian Roberts (2014). “You Can Write a Mystery”, p.2, Untreed Reads

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• you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.

  Maia Wojciechowska

  Courage, Real, Knowing

  Maia Wojciechowska (2007). “Shadow of a Bull”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless.

  Alissa Nutting

  Territory, Female, Filters

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• We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we'll go out, we'll hang our flags, we'll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don't see it. We just don't see the pictures. There's no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don't really see bravery.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Children

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Bravery is not man's monopoly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Monopoly, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.302, Rajpal & Sons

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• Watching the spontaneous acts of kindness, compassion, and generosity, courage, and bravery in the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings was so deeply moving. It is in our nature to want to help, to serve, to be part of something larger than ourselves. We have a desire to connect with others. We want to make a difference in the world. I would call this a spiritual longing to be whole, interrelated, interconnected.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Spiritual, Kindness, Moving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All bravery stands upon comparisons.

  Francis Bacon

  Courage, Comparison

  Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1853). “The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, with a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil ... Revised from the Early Copies, with the References Now First Supplied, and a Few Notes, by Thomas Markby”, p.115

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• I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

  David Mallet

  Honesty, Spurs, Deeds

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• What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Leadership, War, Successful

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