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Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

Approximate author period: c. 1997 AD · modern

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Emilie Autumn
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Approximate author period: c. 1997 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Emilie Autumn: documented activity in 1997. Wikidata Q230836, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230836 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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