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• Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Play, Bravery, Bags

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• I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

  John Bell Hood

  Sacrifice, Bravery, Soldier

  John Bell Hood (1996). “Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies”, p.58, U of Nebraska Press

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• I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

  Ira Hayes

  Hero, Men, Bravery

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• I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.

  Alain Prost

  Bravery, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.

  Cindy Crawford

  Hate, Swimsuits, Doing Me

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• The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Pigs, Use, Labs

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• When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Thinking, Giving, Print

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One brave deed makes no hero.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sports, Military, Hero

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.194

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Courage, Desperate, Aggravated

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• Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

  John Gay

  Love, Bravery, Coward

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.20

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• Brave men are brave from the very first.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Bravery, Firsts

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Le Cid, II. 3, 1922.

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• Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

  Grace Jones

  Bravery, Enough, Carriages

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• It's a brave new world.

  Howard Kurtz

  Brave New World, Bravery, World

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• It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

  Georges Bernanos

  Fear, Men, Bravery

  Georges Bernanos (1962). “The Diary of a Country Priest”

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• Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Husband

  "The Canterbury tales: translated into modern English prose".

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• Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

  Homer

  Country, Men, Bravery

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.669, Delphi Classics

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• That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Courage, Thoughtful, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2136, Delphi Classics

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• A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

  Philip Sidney

  Courage, Knights, Bravery

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.72

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• Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Philosophical, Doctors, Years

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Aes Triplex'

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• I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Stars, Young Love, Bravery

  Song: Hello, Young Lovers

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• Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.

  Walter Knott

  Home, Land, Bravery

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• Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Fighting, Men, Bravery

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• The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Bravery, Lovely, May

  Charles Godfrey Leland (2015). “Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land”, p.142, Library of Alexandria

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