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"The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense."
"When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path."
"Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold."
"It is June. I am tired of being brave."
"What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared."
"We must be brief when traitors brave the field."
"Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward."
"Increasingly, there are only two kinds of companies: brave and dead."
"Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow."
"And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born."
"Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand."
"Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history."
"Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter."
"I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others."
"Infinite Love is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the 'summum bonum' of life. It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all. It does not come within the each of the coward. It is no wooden of lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving."
"The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]"
"will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty"
"A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion."
"Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
"A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience."
