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"Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage." »Wendell Phillips
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"bravery never goes out of fashion." »William Makepeace Thackeray
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"Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado." »Menander
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"The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought." »Euripides
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"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." »James Stephens
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"And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do." »L. Neil Smith
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"Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude." »Sir Philip Sidney
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"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." »Robert F. Kennedy
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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
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"It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals." »Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
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