“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain, quoted in Entrepreneur.com
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”
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“Doing nothing is very hard to do … you never know when you’re
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Actor Leslie Nielsen, quoted in the Tulsa World
“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”
Charlotte Brontë, quoted in the Associated Press
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, quoted in the Dayton, Ohio, Daily News
“Finding a way to live the simple life today is a man’s most
complicated task.”
World War II hero Henry A. Courtney, quoted in Forbes.com
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