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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…
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It’s dated now, but the decision to use the poem/short essay “To the Crazy Ones” was sheer genius, especially at a time when the concept of using a consumer device could be a stamp of individuality, a mark of one’s creativity, was a novel idea. This came in 1997 at a time when to use…