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Quote by William Hazlitt
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observ

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. – William Hazlitt

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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. – William Hazlitt

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Religion
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William Hazlitt
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The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. – William Hazlitt

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Knowledge
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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. – George Konrad

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Courage

Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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Courage

The word courage – God, I love that word. Words are so important to me. – Peter Fonda

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Courage

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth. – Margaret Walker

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Courage

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We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. – William Osler

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. – Rene Descartes

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And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time. – Trip Hawkins

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