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“Immigrants were also often Type T. You take a huge risk that alters the course of your life and the generations that come after. Whether you're running away or toward something, it takes cojones to leave your home and start from scratch.”

Book:In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

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“If this journey has taught me anything, it is that sometimes in life you have to stand up for what you believe in, and for what you feel in your gut. Sure, it can be scary, and it requires some courage at times, but worthwhile things never come easy. And the best things in life always require a ‘never say die’ attitude.”

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Book:Never Give Up: My Life in the Wild

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“Courage is doing what is right and necessary, regardless of peril. Your parents were brave. Your grandmother was brave. Endangering yourself or others for the sake of wealth? Risking lives for a chance at ill-gotten gain? This is not courage. It is avarice.”

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Book:The Well

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“Fear gets feverish, attain such height. Haters go blind, burn so bright. Courage isn't absence of fear, courage is to overcome fear. Birds get jealous, fly to such heights.”

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Book:Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

“I am my own person, and I will not set fire to myself to keep you warm.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gracely

“[W]e must have the courage to break with traditional law, establish ourselves in our own way of life. We must do so harmoniously, cooperatively, and courageously. We must do so with the full conviction that those who are selfish, those who are ignorant— and they are not necessarily uneducated, but those profoundly ignorant—will be unhappy about the whole thing.”

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Author:Manly P. Hall

“To be of honey and flames....diamond and dust...tender and fierce....laughter and sobs...is to know softness and courage in the same skin...for stitched are they in the fabric of womanhood.”

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