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Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences.

David Whyte

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David Whyte
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
Film Actor
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Poet
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Television Actor
Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
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