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In the latter stages of the movie, Saving Private Ryan, a powerful exchange happens between Tom Hanks’ character, the leader of the group sent to find Ryan, Captain Miller. He is speaking to his Sergeant after they find Ryan, who then won’t leave the bridge he is ordered to defend. Stunned, the two men walk away…
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Alba gu bra! (Scotland forever) In the wonderful movie Braveheart, the character of William Wallace speaks to rally Scottish fighters before the battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297: Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live, at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you…
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a very popular error: having the courage of one’s convictions— Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one’s convictions!!! –Nietzsche, from Beyond Good and Evil Another way to say it, that I read some years ago was this: It’s not enough to have the courage of your…