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«Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
compared, courageous, defied, defies, politician, reformer, The Social
«The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.»
Author: Coco Chanel
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Thinking
| Keywords:
aloud, courageous, thinking aloud
«To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.»
«The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.»
«Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe . . . nor as utterly fabulous on the screen.»
Author: Billy Wilder
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Courage,
Truth
| Keywords:
courageous, Marilyn Monroe, Monroe, screen, the screen
«PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply --the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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and so forth, arbiter, attendance, courageous, defect, disputant, disputants, disputes, formerly, International, international affairs, in attendance, physical contact, projectile, propulsion, prudence, rudimentary, settled, spear, The Times
«There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Fear,
Prudence,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
caution, courageous, prudence, reptile, reptiles
«The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
against, assuming, beings, brings, by far, courageous, formidable, honor, human beings, painful, precisely, spiritual, tragedies, weapons
«To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
Beautiful Thing, contemplate, contemplated, courageous, for one, one-man, useful
«The courageous captain of complements.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
captain, complemented, complements, courageous
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