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  • Edward Hoagland Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Plutarch Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • John Wayne Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
    John Wayne
    American actor and filmmaker (1907 - 1979)
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  • C. S. Lewis Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Clive Staples Lewis Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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  • Ambrose Redmoon Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
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  • Epictetus Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • John Gay Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Queen Elizabeth II Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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  • Rose Macaulay Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Bebe Neuwirth Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bill Bailey Creationists mainly are Americans who think the world was created in 1982 to coincide with the rise of Super Tramp but you can very easily dispute this by playing some of Super Tramps earlier albums.
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Georges Bataille Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Emma Goldman Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bill James Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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