A good man does not make a ...

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.
A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Study the past, if you would divine the future.