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How to use the word valor in a Sentence? Page #2

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It is a heartbreaking circumstance for these individuals who have served our country with great valor to be killed in this fashion.

President Obama

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8 years ago

Robert redefined what valor means, in my mind.

Commissioner Charles Ramsey

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9 years ago

People often say that stolen valor is a victimless crime and to some degree it may be.

Anthony Anderson

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9 years ago

It smacks of stolen valor.

Pete Mansoor

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9 years ago

En esta sociedad, la norma de la masculinidad es la agresión fálica. la sexualidad masculina es, por definición, intensamente y rígidamente fálica. la identidad de un hombre se encuentra en su concepción de sí mismo como el poseedor de un falo; valor de un hombre se encuentra en su orgullo por la identidad fálica. la principal característica de la identidad fálica es que vale la pena es totalmente supeditado a la posesión de un falo. ya que los hombres no tienen otros criterios para la pena, hay otra noción de identidad, los que no tienen falos no se reconocen como plenamente humana.

Andrea Dworkin

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9 years ago

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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10 years ago

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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10 years ago

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

Walter Bagehot

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10 years ago

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Plutarch

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10 years ago

Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.

Virgil

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10 years ago

In false quarrels there is no true valor.

William Shakespeare

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13 years ago

It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Sir Thomas Browne

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13 years ago

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

Major General Sir William Napier, Peninsular War [1810]

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13 years ago

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit- a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor- that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.

Walter Lord, World War II Memorial in Washington, DC

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13 years ago

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Anonymous

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13 years ago

...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

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13 years ago

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Sir Thomas Browne

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14 years ago

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Publilius Syrus

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14 years ago

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Carl Sandburg

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14 years ago

Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.

La Rochefoucauld

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14 years ago

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