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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
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Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
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Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
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Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations.
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Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: a kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
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