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Fear is only as deep as the mind allows

Japanese Proverb
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When great events are moving, one must play a part in them.

Winston Churchill
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Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

Benjamin Franklin
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I do not fear the 10,000 kicks you have practiced once. I fear the one kick you have practiced 10,000 times.

Bruce Lee
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Nothing more can be considered as real merit for a person than his effort. Only in his effort is a person shown in his real light.

Unknown
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Brothers - the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.

Tecumseh
13D
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A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust into a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.

Arabian Proverb
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Worry is the dividend paid to disaster before it is due.. when the odds are hopeless, when all seems lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show of authority at least of indifference.

Unknown
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My power proceeds from my reputation, and my reputation from the victories I have won. My power would fail if I were not in support of it with more glory and more victories. Conquest has made me what I am; only conquest can maintain me.

Napoleon Bonaparte
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When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

Tecumseh
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Take a bucket, fill it with water, put your hand in it clear up to the wrist. Now pull it out; the hole that remains is a measure of how much you'll be missed.. the moral of this quaint example: to do just the best you can, be proud of yourself, but remember, there is no indispensable man!

Unknown
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