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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of charac

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. – John Stuart Mill

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Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage. – Gabriele DAnnunzio

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Because at bottom, Im interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter peoples heads. – Kevin Patterson

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Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green. – Torquato Tasso

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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented. – Lech Walesa

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