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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No dis

The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. – Joseph Conrad

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A mans real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. – Joseph Conrad

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respect
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Joseph Conrad
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. – Joseph Conrad

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Emotions
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Joseph Conrad
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But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. – Ray Stannard Baker

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Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. – Kurt Goldstein

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Courage

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. – Theodore Roosevelt

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And I think most people in this country want to see a president thats got the courage to say were going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and were going to get Americans working. – Rick Perry

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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. – Robert Browning

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We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation. – Andrew Weil

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A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

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If I like a food, Ill eat it, even if I know its not good for me. – Kim Kardashian

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