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cowardice
«Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.»
Author: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
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«Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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«Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.»
«Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.»
«Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Cowardice
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«Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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«Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Conscience
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cowardice, firm, The Firm, trade, trade name