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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 not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. – William Hazlitt

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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce

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Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. – Louis D. Brandeis

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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. – George Smith Patton

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Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. – Jean Anouilh

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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems. – G.W. Allport, Becoming, 1955

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A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics. – Ron Fournier

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Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. – Paul Brunton

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