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A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.

Lloyd Alexander

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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