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• Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and redemptive. The courage it took to write this story is challenged only by the courage it must have taken to live it. I sit in awe of such unflinching honesty. LOVE JUNKIE is memoir at its very best.

  Hope Edelman

  Honesty, Lost Love, Taken

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• THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

  George Mikes

  Reality, People, Faces

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• Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Persevere

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2092, Manonmani Publishers

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• Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!

  Henry Chorley

  Pride, Years, Tree

  Henry Fothergill Chorley, “The Brave Old Oak”

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• The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brave Face, Justice, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

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• The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  What I've Learned: Salman Rushdie" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2005.

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• Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Taken, Law, People

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• There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

  Warren Zevon

  Real, Drinking, Alcohol

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• So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

  William James

  Use, Anticipation, Fit

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.100, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Believe in yourself and back yourself to come out on top. A fulfilling career is waiting for those brave enough to find it.

  Richard Branson

  Powerful, Believe, Careers

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• It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Ovation, Firsts

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• If you are brave enough to be yourself, I think that is a huge risk and should be applauded.

  Jennifer Nettles

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Risk

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• It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

  Lena Dunham

  Scare, Kind Of Girl

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.113, Random House

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• It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. Performing in sex scenes that I direct, exposing a flash of my weird puffy nipple, those things don't fall into my zone of terror.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Fall, Scare

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.113, Random House

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• In the Han Dynasty, Xiang
  Yu was very brave and won
  many battles, but in the end
  he failed. Treat people with
  sincerity and build a good
  organization. Otherwise, it
  doesn’t matter how famous
  or how capable you are.

  Li Ka-shing

  Organization, People, Battle

  "On Corporate Strategy". Shantou University Business School Economic Forum, www.lksf.org. May 11, 2001.

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• Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Loneliness, First Love, Worry

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• If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

  Josef Pieper

  Fall, Taken, Ambition

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.

  Josef Pieper

  Men, Wrath, Evil

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define God. Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book. Maybe we should be brave enough to admit that we are compelled to either become blinded ideologues or we need to forthrightly pick and choose what we follow in the Bible. Most Christians do that anyway, many just don’t admit it.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Book

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• If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Fine, Ifs

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• I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

  Ayn Rand

  Coward, Enough, Consequence

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• I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

  George Washington

  People, Choices, Flow

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.153

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• Show me how big your brave is.

  Sara Bareilles

  Bigs, Show Me, Shows

  Song: Brave, Album: The Blessed Unrest, 2013

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• The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Choices, Decision, Relax

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• Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Thinking, Passing On

  "Tributes to Steve Jobs", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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