"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
-Edward Gibbon
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"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.“
-Edward Gibbon
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself."
-Edward Gibbon
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
-Edward Gibbon
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"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
-Edward Gibbon
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"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
-Edward Gibbon
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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
-Edward Gibbon
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"I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights."
-Megawati Sukarnoputri
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"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."
-William Boetcker
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"I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage."
-Dame Edith Evans
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"There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge."
-Patrick Campbell
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"Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow."
-Alexandre Vinet
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"There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage."
-Bill Hunter
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