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Quote by Daniel Dennett
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroe

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. – Daniel Dennett

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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesnt need its brain anymore so it eats it! – Daniel Dennett

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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. – Daniel Dennett

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Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently – the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs good tricks. – Daniel Dennett

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. – Plautus

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Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. – François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, were going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didnt have the courage to solve it they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic. – Don Young

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To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. – Marilyn vos Savant

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My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. – Julie Andrews

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Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. – Alexander McCall Smith

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There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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