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"I learned that Congress is a place with more heart than courage; there are more good souls in Washington than brave ones. I learned that the whole is not always the sum of its parts: that what you put in doesnt always match what you get out."
"It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of self-definition. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs."
"None but the brave can live with the fair."
"No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny."
"No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born."
"The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else."
"To heal my wounds, I need to be brave enough to face them."
"It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice."
"You have to be very brave in that first writing session."
"The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them."
"The brave venture anything."
"Come on, somebody be brave."
"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."
"A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?"
"Brave deeds are wasted when hidden."
"Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat."
"I shall never again admire a merely brave man."
"What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion."
"Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally."
"I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest."
