#courage

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ↗

— James Callaghan

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The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#armed forces #because #capable #chance #citizenship

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive. ↗

— Jane Campion

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Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#discourage #listen #never #try #you

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. ↗

— Edward Felten

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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

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Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today. ↗

— Mike Ferguson

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ↗

— Joseph Chamberlain

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Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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