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Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.

Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else’s interest before one’s own.
– Michelle Cohen Corasanti

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