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Quote by John Burns
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. – John Burns

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You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters. – John Burns

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I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves. – John Burns

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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution. – Mary Daly

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Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. – Grace Paley

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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair. – Mercy Otis Warren

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. – Aristotle

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon

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A hug is two hearts wrapped in arms. – Author Unknown

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. – Lewis Mumford

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