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Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.

— Stephen Covey Foreword to Prisoners of our Thoughts : Viktor Frankl's Principles at Work (2004)

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Notes from Wikiquote

This statement has also been attributed to James Neil Hollingsworth (AKA: Ambrose Redmoon) in an article entitled "No Peaceful Warriors!" for Gnosis Magazine #21, in 1991.

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