It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. — E.E. Cummings

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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look. — Marcus Aurelius

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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. — Rosa Parks

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. - Voltaire

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Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. — Michelle Obama

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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. — Nelson Mandela

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The act of doing something un-does the fear. - Shonda Rhimes

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Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

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