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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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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

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Beauty
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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. – Sydney Smith

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Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They wont offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else. – Susana Martinez

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Courage

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. – Carl Sandburg

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The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre. – Helen Hayes

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I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his moms car in the middle of the night. Hed drive over to my house, Id sneak out and wed go out to the desert and just burn things down. – Mark Hoppus

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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. – Honore de Balzac

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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. – Richard M. Nixon

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