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there is no courage in being fearless. Do you not know that? A person who knows fear and yet can still think of others, well, he be a brave man.

— Paula Brackston

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Better foolish and honest than clever and false.

Reputation is for those who can afford it.

Knowledge cannot be unknown. Experience cannot be unlived.

After all, are we not measured by the way in which we treat the most vulnerable members of our society?

There is none so quick to dismiss what they don’t understand as those who are afraid of it. And maybe with reason.

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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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