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Chester W. Nimitz Quote: 'Uncommon valor was a common virtue. ...'

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True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.


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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.


Booker T. Washington
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When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover
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People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.
Arlo Guthrie
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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.


William Shakespeare
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True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.


Miguel de Cervantes
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Humanity hungers for the uncommon.


Michael Leunig
Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.
Ann Landers
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
Michael F. Easley
The narrow path that 'Uncommon' people will take, that the Lord wants you to go down, that really is the ultimate way to go.
Tony Dungy
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Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg
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In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.
Joe Bob Briggs
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.


Plautus
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Elegance is inferior to virtue.


Mary Shelley
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Modesty is the color of virtue.


Diogenes
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.


Baruch Spinoza
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.


Edward Young
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Virtue can only flourish among equals.


Mary Wollstonecraft
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.


Victor Hugo
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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.


Jean Racine