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• Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Gun, Use, Protect

  "'I just wanted to kill'". Interview with Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2008.

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• Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Commodity, Holy

  Harlan Ellison (1972). “Dangerous Visions”, Berkley

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• What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

  Horace

  Art, Wine, Glasses

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• Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Dark, Army, Decision

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• There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

  Brian Jacques

  Brave, World, Littles

  Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.23, Penguin

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• But if that's not enough, then consider this: if the Night's Watch are truly brothers, then Lord Commander Mormont was our father. He lived and died for the Watch and he was betrayed by his own men, stabbed in the back by cowards. He deserved far better.

  Jon Snow

  Brother, Father, Night

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• Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will be mistaken for real warriors. These are great errors.

  Takeda Shingen

  Real, Warrior, Men

  "Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors". Book by William Scott Wilson, p. 92, 1982.

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• It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'...It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Fate

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• The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Strength, Courage, Pain

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• Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

  Mario

  Men, Brave, Mermaid

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• An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need, especially if they were in a foreign country. Why? For fear of acting like a coward or of being boorish. I repeat, I admire the fact that, those persons have, through human respect, more courage than Christians and priests have, through charity or through their good intentions.

  Vincent de Paul

  Leadership, Christian, Country

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

  Christopher Pike

  Eye, Sight, Made

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst No. 5: The Sacred Veil”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.

  Lev Grossman

  Running, Fear, Teenager

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, Viking Press

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• He who fears fate lives like a coward

  Curtis Jackson

  Fate

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• Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.

  Caterina Sforza

  Daughter, Men, May

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• [I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fighting, Doe, Alternatives

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• Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Brave, Thousand, Dies

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• I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!" "Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?

  Alex Scarrow

  Fighting, Said, Please

  "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 2011.

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• Jack! "Where have you been,you miserable little creep?" He raised his eyebrows,a look of mock hurt on his face."This is the thanks I get?" "Give me that bat and I'll show you how grateful I am, coward!

  Kiersten White

  Hurt, Grateful, Eyebrows

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• Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Men, Order

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• It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Law, Earth

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• Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

  Robert Ludlum

  Feel Better, Men, Sometimes

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Bourne Supremacy: Jason Bourne Book #2”, p.96, Bantam

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• I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.

  L.A. Meyer

  Peaceful

  L. A. Meyer (2004). “Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Envy, Fake

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• Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.

  Horace

  Wine, Mean, Light

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