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The brave man displays his courage and strength on the battlefield, not at home. Pg107

— Nii Ayikwei Parkes

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They begin in my head, triggered by things that happen outside my head – usually an image or a sound, those are my primary stimuli – but my creation begins in sound.

When one starts on the path to evil good counsel sounds like a joke. Pg130

I’m a patient and humble reader and I like to learn and nurture. I don’t know what that says about what to expect from the course, but good poems will be written.

They say nothing is other than what you see, but it is also true that nothing is other than what you don't see. Pg168

And when fear catches you, it returns you to screaming, your first language. Pg7

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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