Jazz musicians are often courageous and braver than other musicians because they have faith in their ability to choose, create and dream.

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As John Templeton and the dedicated (and often courageous) people in these endeavors know, these are microsteps toward a macrogoal: a planet that grows not only smaller but also better.

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And his favourite passages in history are the bits where believers (often courageous Sufi mystics) spoke truth to power, not the instances when pliant greybeards did favours to the sultan.

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"This seemed to me a very brave, courageous decision, " especially because older people often don't recognize their own decline, said Dr. Seth Landefeld, an expert on aging and chairman of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Given the heated and often misleading rhetoric surrounding this legislation I know that this was a courageous vote for many members of Congress, and I'm grateful to them and for the rest of their colleagues for taking us this far.

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