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"A decline in COURAGE may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic COURAGE, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in COURAGE is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites..." »Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.
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"It is curious that physical COURAGE should be so common in the world and moral COURAGE so rare." »Mark Twain
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"It is easy enough to praise men for the COURAGE of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the COURAGE of their confusion." »John Anthony Ciardi
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"COURAGE is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living COURAGE." »Unknown
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"The COURAGE of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the COURAGE of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The COURAGE that we all prize and seek is not the COURAGE to die decently, but to live manfully." »Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy
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"We must have the COURAGE to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires COURAGE if life is to be effective and bring happiness." »Maxwell Maltz
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"Whatever you do, you need COURAGE. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same COURAGE which a soldier needs." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The COURAGE to be is the COURAGE to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable." »Paul Tillich
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"COURAGE does not always roar. Sometimes COURAGE is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."" »Mary Anne Radmacher
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"Now the alternative to despair is COURAGE. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. COURAGE is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that COURAGE usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it." »Paul E. Pfuetze
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"Every man has his own COURAGE, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the COURAGE of other persons." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Whatever you do, you need COURAGE. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same COURAGE that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"COURAGE, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything.. it was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. COURAGE was dealing with your fears, and not letting them rule you." »Missy Good
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"A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; COURAGE to leave the known for the unknown!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of COURAGE. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love." »Delmore Schwartz
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"COURAGE is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no COURAGE unless you're scared." »Eddie Rickenbacker
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"COURAGE is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for COURAGE." »Agesilaus the Second
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"There is a COURAGE of happiness as well as a COURAGE of sorrow." »Alfred Adler
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"COURAGE is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for COURAGE." »Agesilaus the Second
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"I wanted you to see what real COURAGE is, instead of getting the idea that COURAGE is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." »Harper Lee
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"It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of COURAGE par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home." »Alvaro de Solva
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"I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of COURAGE... What is at the summit of COURAGE, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you." »Paula Giddings
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"COURAGE changes things for the better...With COURAGE you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped." »Earl Nightingale
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"COURAGE is what it takes to stand up and speak COURAGE is also what it takes to sit down and listen." »Carl Hermann Voss
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"The best weapons against the infamies of life are COURAGE, wilfulness and patience. COURAGE strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility." »Hermann Hesse
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"COURAGE is the thing. All goes if COURAGE goes." »Joseph Addison
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"To see what is right and not to do it, is want of COURAGE." »Confucius Analects
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"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his COURAGE." »Jean Anouilh
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"COURAGE is saying, Maybe what I'm doing isn't working maybe I should try something else." »Anna Lappe
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