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• I don't think there is anything wrong with a man who wants to give credit to the Lord, but I don't think the team with the most Christians on it is necessarily going to win. The Lord may be helping their characters and souls, but I don't think he's any more for the Dodgers than he is for the Braves. More than being concerned with who's going to win the Super Bowl, I feel the Lord is probably more concerned that they might find a day other than Sunday to play it on.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Team, Character

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• If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Truth, Speak, Ifs

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• When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.

  Louis L'Amour

  Lying, Believe, Animal

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Ride the Dark Trail”, p.70, Bantam

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• Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

  James Russell Lowell

  Father, Men, Slavery

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.52

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• In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

  Sallust

  Victory, Adverse, Boast

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• One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

  Gunter Grass

  Fear, Mistake, Enough

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• The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.

  Jose Marti

  Justice, Bravery, Victory

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• It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.

  Rick Mercer

  School, Brave New World, Years

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• One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

  Jonathan Raban

  Family, Acceptance, Fiber

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

  Bertice Berry

  Home, Land, Addiction

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• If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Live Life, Bravery, Dies

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• When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Sleep

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• Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Be Brave, Enough

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• Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Science, One Day

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• Uncertainty as to our relationship to God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless. It takes the pith out of him. He cannot fight; he cannot run. He is easily dismayed, and gives way. He can do nothing for God.

  Horatius Bonar

  Running, Fighting, Men

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• It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as helpful to have people who don't believe in you, people who mock you, people who doubt you, people who enrage you. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of this type of person in the world ... write for yourself. Write for the story. And write, also, for all of the people who doubt you. Write for all those people who are not brave enough to do this grand and wondrous thing themselves. Let them motivate you.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

  Homer

  Fighting, Fate, Men

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.224, University of Chicago Press

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• It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

  Jean-Francois Regnard

  Courage, Heart, Bravery

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• Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

  P. T. Barnum

  Men, Doe, Favors

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.43, Applewood Books

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• It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It’s getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.

  Helen Hunt

  Nice, Artist, Trying

  "Helen Hunt Talks Baring All in ‘The Sessions’: 'It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things'". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

  Andrea Corr

  Real, Stupid, Character

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• President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Inspirational, Country, Art

  "Put a Face on It" by Anna Deavere Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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• There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

  Ehud Barak

  Risk, Lines, Compromise

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• I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.

  Joyce Banda

  Years, Abuse, Mind

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• Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Home, Mean, Warrior

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", January 20, 2006.

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