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Antarctic exploration is seldom as bad as you imagine, seldom as bad as it sounds.
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On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
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Man is but a reed, weakest in nature, but a reed which thinks.
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If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must be some way of realising it.
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Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.
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At any rate, we were on the move at last, and if dangers and difficulties lay ahead we could meet and overcome them.
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His cheery optimism never failed, even when food was very short and the prospect of relief seemed remote.
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Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.
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The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!
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Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.
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Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected
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With foresight, and a willingness on the part of our people to face up to the vast responsibility which history has clearly placed upon our country, the difficulties I have outlined can and will be overcome.
George C. Marshallverified·Remarks at Harvard University on the European Recovery Program·June 5, 1947
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Life is a fair field, and the right will prosper if we stand by our guns.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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Courage returns as we gaze; when we see what has been, we doubt no more that it can be again.
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To the hopes of the hostile, the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply.
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With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope.
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When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.
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Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.
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Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again
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It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.
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These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.