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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."	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."	Robert Green Ingersoll
"It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."	Robert Green Ingersoll
"One man with courage makes a majority."	Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson
"One man with courage is a majority."	Thomas Jefferson
"Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom."	Andrew Johnson
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."	Erica Mann Jong
"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."	Erica Mann Jong
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."	Herbert Kaufman
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."	Helen Adams Keller
"There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete."	Helen Adams Keller
"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication?"	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society."	Robert Francis Kennedy
"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."	Robert Francis Kennedy
"If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy."	Dean Koontz
"Even in the darkest phase be it thick or thin, always someone marches brave here beneath my skin."	K. D. Lang
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André Gide	Annie Besant	Aristotle
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Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bernard Edmonds
Bertie Forbes	Brendan Francis Behan	B. J. Gupta
Celeste Holm	Charles Hamilton Aide	Charles Luckman
Charles Mathias, Jr.	Confucius	Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Corra Harris	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	David Ben-Gurion
David L(yle) Boren	Dean Koontz	Doris Lessing
Doris Wild Helmering	Douglas MacArthur	Dwight David Eisenhower
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	D. A. Battista	Earl Nightingale
Edward Morgan Forster	Elizabeth Harrison	Elmer Holmes Davis
Erica Mann Jong	Erma Louise Bombeck	Ernest Miller Hemingway
Euripides	E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings	Franklin P. Adams
François de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon	Gale Brook Burket	Geoffrey F. Abert
George Burton Adams	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Helen Adams Keller
Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Kaufman	Hoshang N. Akhtar
Hubert H. Humphrey	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Maritain
Jean Anouilh	Jerome Seymour Bruner	Jerry Coleman
Jim Davis	Joan Borysenko	Joan L. Curcio
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.	John Anthony Ciardi
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Kenneth Galbraith	John W(illiam) Gardner
Joseph Addison	Joseph Conrad	Joshua 1:9 Bible
Julian Weber Gordon	Julie Arabi	J. Lawton Collins
K. D. Lang	Lao-Tzu	Lewis Carroll
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lisa Alther	Lloyd Alexander
Lucille Ball	Mark Twain	Mark McGee
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Bertone	Mary Tyler Moore
Maxwell Maltz	Maya Angelou	Menander
Mignon McLaughlin	Miguel de Cervantes	Missy Good
Napolean Bonaparte	Napoleon I	Newt Gingrich
Noel Coward	Paula Giddings	Peter F(erdinand) Drucker
Phyllis McGinley	Psalm 27: 13-14 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Raymond Lindquist	Reinhold Niebuhr	Reinhold Neibuhr
Richard	Richard Louis Evans	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Albert Bloch	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll
Rodan of Alexandria	Ruth Gordon	Saint Francis of Assisi
Siddha Nagarjuna	Sidney Madwed	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Walter Besant	Sir William Arthur	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Sophia Loren	Stephen R. Covey	Susanna Moodie
Theodore Ledyard Cuyler	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Paine
Thomas Alva Edison	Van Wyck Brooks	Vicki Baum
Victor Hugo	Victoria Lincoln	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Walt(er) Elias Disney	Wanda Carter	Warren G. Bennis
William Blake	William Ellery Channing	William Franklin "Billy" Graham
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham	"Joe"	(John) Calvin Coolidge
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