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George Patton on Heroism

“The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”

— General George S. Patton, Jr., Speech to the US Third Army on the eve of D-Day, 5 June 1944

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July 6, 2007 · 12:10 pm

George Patton on Death

“Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men… A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honour, his sense of duty to his country and his innate manhood.”

— General George S. Patton, Jr., Speech to the US Third Army on the eve of D-Day, 5 June 1944

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July 6, 2007 · 12:03 pm

Albus Dumbledore on Death

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

— Albus Dumbledore in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, chapter 26

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