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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.


Alfred North Whitehead

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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RICK RIORDAN Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe...
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RICK RIORDAN Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed.
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RICK RIORDAN We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced.
“You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly...
RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas...
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Percy wanted to step ...
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RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered.
The taxi driver grinned in...
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Sorry about that last cliff-hanger.
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RICK RIORDAN Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!”
“Tempting,” ...
RICK RIORDAN So, a crash course for the amnesiac,” Leo said, in a helpful tone that made Jason think this was n...
RICK RIORDAN Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. LEWIS Courage is not simply one of the virtues , but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. LEWIS Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. LEWIS Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!”
Percy had no intention of doing that.
RICK RIORDAN He (Leo) forced his fists to unclench. "Look, lady, we're not going all Hunger Games on each other. ...
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Leo snorted. "What's a wine...
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RICK RIORDAN Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.
RICK RIORDAN Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels.
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“Probably,” Frank said.
“She�...
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Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out s...
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RICK RIORDAN I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider!
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RICK RIORDAN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
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C. JOYBELL C. But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!
RICK RIORDAN The stag’s enormous head turned slightly—toward the wagon, toward the small window.

T...
SARAH J. MAAS Kinzie smiled smugly. “You admire our base of operations? Yes, our distribution system is worldwid...
RICK RIORDAN Anybody have any money?”
Frank checked his pockets. “Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five ...
RICK RIORDAN Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!”
Then he gasped and pointed to th...
RICK RIORDAN I could have killed you.”
“Or I could have killed you,” Percy said.
Jason shrugged....
RICK RIORDAN Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.
RICK RIORDAN Aphrodite,” [Annabeth] said.
“Venus?” Hazel asked in amazement.
“Mom,” Piper s...
RICK RIORDAN Leo drummed his fingers. “Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell ...
RICK RIORDAN Coach Hedge yelled,“Thar she blows! Kansas, ahoy!”
“Holy Hephaestus,” Leo muttered. “...
RICK RIORDAN Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless.
Fighting Shrimpz...
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C.S. LEWIS The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never...
RICK RIORDAN Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues.
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CARL WHITEHEAD This is unfortunately a serious problem. It is a pervasive problem.
CARL WHITEHEAD As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some ...
COLSON WHITEHEAD It was because of [Bishop's] abilities to get out and move the puck up the ice.
TIM WHITEHEAD It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing i...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Ultimately, the teams will help us to develop a truly compelling design for the World Trade Center s...
JOHN WHITEHEAD Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish.
TED WHITEHEAD A firefly blinked into existence, drew half a word in the air. Then gone. A black bug secret in the ...
COLSON WHITEHEAD memory has a palette and broad brush.
COLSON WHITEHEAD in the slow motion that is the speed of humiliation.
COLSON WHITEHEAD Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of ...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Life! What Inscrutable Card Shall Ye Throw Next Upon the Soft Felt of Our Days?
COLSON WHITEHEAD He told me three weeks ago not to send anything else.
PAUL WHITEHEAD Yet we still have no idea what happened or where it even started, not even a description of a suspec...
KIMBERLEY WHITEHEAD Older cars had those old vacuum windshield wiper systems, and when they went bad it was almost impos...
ROBBY WHITEHEAD Tonight came down to the last whistle and we are fortunate to have advanced. We had our hands full t...
TIM WHITEHEAD We didn't want to cry wolf. But I don't think the public generally realizes the predicament we're in...
RONALD WHITEHEAD I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've sp...
COLSON WHITEHEAD He might have been the best player among both teams. He is so strong on the puck. He's great at keep...
TIM WHITEHEAD And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all...
COLSON WHITEHEAD There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to ...
COLSON WHITEHEAD