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Katie Couric Journalist
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"Be bold, be humble, be brave, be resilient, be productive, be good, good to yourselves and good to each other. Be careful; be caring."

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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician
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"I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)"

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Joyce Cary Novelist
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"The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die."

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"You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad."

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Malala Yousafzai Activist, Author
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"I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!"

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different."

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Wade Davis Anthropologist, Author
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"Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit."

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Lucille Ball Actress, Comedian
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"I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy."

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Plato Philosopher
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"Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling."

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