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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. – Sydney Smith

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In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. – Sydney Smith

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Tea
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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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Humankind
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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Confidence
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Through the inspiration of Vaclavs words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe. – Michael D. Higgins

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Courage

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. – Thomas Hardy

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Courage

Its up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. Youre either courageous or not. You have to find a way. – Ben Gazzara

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Courage

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. – Aaron Hill

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Courage

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You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if – if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what weve coming in, Ill veto it. I mean, Im going to try to work with you the best I can, but Im going to veto it. – Rick Perry

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Money

Ill let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. – Bob Dylan

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Dreams

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. – E. M. Forster

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Consumerism

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. – Paul Hawken

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Art