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The front door is usually unlocked and there is no alarm system. They don't wear their seat belts in the car; they don't wear suntan lotion in the sun. They have decided nothing can kill them but God himself, and they don't even believe in him.
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courage
death
god
fearless
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David Benioff |
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Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.
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wrong
feelings
courage
inspiration
wisdom
worth-it
landry
pearl-in-the-mist
v-c-andrews
right
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V.C. Andrews |
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"That's what it is to be a hero," Riordan says. "It's fighting on even when you're hopelessly outnumbered. It's seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It's doing the very best you can."
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courage
hope
hero
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Juliet Marillier |
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But there is one person who expected the unexpected from me and the only time I noticed disappointment on his face was when I cowered like a sheep. And I had to take a moment to figure out I'm not ashamed of him. It's him who should be ashamed of me. I've put Razor in an unfair position. He introduced me to his world. Welcomed me with open arms. Made me feel like I belonged and I've asked him to keep a secret when doing so is killing him. And I told him that we would be over...I did the exact thing to him that Clara did to me and that's not okay. No part of it is okay.
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young-adult
courage
katie-mcgarry
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Katie McGarry |
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He penned a letter to the Company in London, a letter whose unfailing spirit would become legendary among the sailors of the East India Company. 'I cannot tell where you should looke for me.' he wrote, 'because I live at the devotion of the winds and seas.' (Written by/about Captain James Lancaster, on the ship Red Dragon, during a terrible storm, 1603)
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courage
james-lancaster
sailors
spice-islands
explorers
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Giles Milton |
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"What about you, Snipes?" Dunbar asked. "You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?" Snipes pondered the question a few moments before speaking. They's many a man of science would claim there aint because you got no irredeemable evidence like panther scat or fur or tooth or tail. In other words, some part of the animal in questions. Or better yet having the actual critter itself, the whole think kit and caboodle head to tail, which all your men of science argue is the best proof of all a thing exists, whether it be a panther, or a bird, or even a dinosaur." To put it another way, if you was to stub your toe and tell the man of science what happened he'd not believe a word of it less he could see how it'd stoved up or was bleeding. But your philosophers and theologians and such say there's things in the world that's every bit as real even though you can't see them." Like what?" Dunbar asked. Well," Snipes said. "They's love, that's one. And courage. You can't see neither of them, but they're real. And air, of course. That's one of your most important examples. You wouldn't be alive a minute if there wasn't air, but nobody's ever seen a single speck of it."
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courage
faith
science
darkness
love
philosophy
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Ron Rash |
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This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathize or praise him for it. What he felt was felt without the hope of commendation.
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courage
praise
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Richard Matheson |
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But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at one, I would do nothing forever.
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courage
activism
hard-choices
determination
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Naomi Novik |
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I had found the upper limit of my courage. Fortunately for me, there is no known lower limit to human stupidity.
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courage
recklessness
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Ben Aaronovitch |
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The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.
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existence
courage
challenges
speaking
teachers
mistakes
teaching
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.
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bravery
courage
fear
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Lori Lansens |
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It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.
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courage
books
science
change
revolution
ideas
creativity
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E.L. Konigsburg |
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When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that no one will know their vulgarities; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set. It affords you then an inordinate amount of self-esteem. You have the self-satisfaction of courage without the inconvenience of danger.
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courage
conventionality
insightful
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W Somerset Maugham |
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"Monsieur Foinet got up and made as if to go, but he changed his mind, and, stopping, put his hand on Philip's shoulder. "But if you were going to ask me my advice, I should say: take your courage in both hands and try your luck at something else. It sounds very hard, but let me tell you this: I would give all I have in the world if someone had given me that advice when I was your age and I had taken it." Philip looked up at him with surprise. The master forced his lips into a smile, but his eyes remained grave and sad. "It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it's too late. It does not improve the temper." He gave a little laugh as he said the last words and quickly walked out of the room."
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courage
temper
mediocrity
luck
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Though hast my sword. Strike. Death shall be a sweet rest to me. Thraldom, not death, should terrify me.
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courage
fear
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E.R. Eddison |
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"Fear wearing black.' Definition of cool. Maybe it's also the definition of courage. Would she be courageous?"."
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courage
fear
cool
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Martha Grimes |
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They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.
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courage
friends
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Tad Williams |
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There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.
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courage
rise-up
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Jim Butcher |
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"What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm. "Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him. "I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator."
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courage
retort
cowardice
threat
sarcasm
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Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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You'd probably start laughing because you'd realize that your fears had been the result of a gigantic cosmic joke that had persisted throughout all of your previous reincarnations.
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laughter
courage
fear
reincarnation
fears
scared
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David D. Burns |
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Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?
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irony
bravery
courage
inspiration
motivation
strength
success
life-lessons
humor
wisdom
adversity
achievement-attitude
growth
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Brandi L. Bates |
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You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.
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courage
freedom
fear
strength
passages-malibu
fearless
quotes
self-help
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Chris Prentiss |
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.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.
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withdraw
humour
courage
death
life
cope
dignity
decision
way-of-life
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Mitch Albom |
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Disbelief is easy, Kane. It's faith that takes courage, and character.
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courage
faith
character
disbelief
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Michael Marshall Smith |
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Because the world needs sons and daughters with the courage of their fathers, and you are a courageous man.
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courage
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Beverly Jenkins |
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Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it! There's nothing out there, they said. Wrong, I said, absolutely wrong. There are waltzes, sword canes, and sea wrack dazzling to the eyes.
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courage
living
life
carpe-diem
teachings
cynicism
teenagers
curiosity
teaching
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Donald Barthelme |
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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who wilfully live in sadness - sullen in the sweet air, he says. Your 'honour' is all shame and timidity and compliance. Pure of stain! But the artist is the secret criminal in our midst. He is the agent of progress against authority. you are right to be a scholar. A scholar is all scruple, an artist is none. The artist must lie, cheat, deceive, be untrue to nature and contemptuous of history. I made my life into my art and it was an unqualified success. The blaze of my immolation threw its light into every corner of the land where uncounted young men sat each in his own darkness. What would I have done in Megara!? - think what I would have missed! I awoke the imagination of the century. I banged Ruskin's and Pater's heads together, and from the moral severity of one and the aesthetic soul of the other I made art a philosophy that can look the twentieth century in the eye. I had genius, brilliancy, daring, I took charge of my own myth. I dipped my staff into the comb of wild honey. I tasted forbidden sweetness and drank the stolen waters. I lived at the turning point of the world where everything was waking up new - the New Drama, the New Novel, New Journalism, New Hedonism, New Paganism, even the New Woman. Where were you when all this was happening?
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courage
life
love
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Tom Stoppard |
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You had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
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courage
inspiration
will
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Norton Juster |