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The elephant-prince story makes love, not money or power, the motive that lets the prince fulfill an impossible promise.
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Courage
Odin's sacrifice of his eye and then himself makes courage a relentless pursuit of unknown knowledge even at the cost of life.
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Priam defeats Achilles morally by kneeling, kissing the killer's hand, and making Achilles recognize a greater courage than battlefield violence.
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Jiang presents the steppes as the most innovative, open, aggressive, and courageous zone, which is why steppe peoples were repeatedly among history’s greatest conquerors.
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Kant's Enlightenment means emergence from self-imposed immaturity: the problem is not lack of reason but laziness, cowardice, and dependence on another's guidance.
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Odin's sacrifice of his eye and then himself makes courage a relentless pursuit of unknown knowledge even at the cost of life.
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Luck is not passive fortune in this model; it is personified as something like a pet that can be nurtured by courageous action and lost through cowardice.
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Priam's decision to kneel and kiss Achilles' hand rather than kill him demonstrates courage and strength greater than Achilles has seen in battle.
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"Okay, no, no. You know what, this is too long, okay? So I'll just tell you the story. The story's very simple. There's an..."
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"Out of my love for your daughter, I will go and kill the elephant. And he does. That's the power of love, okay? That's..."
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"...recognizes that priam is the greater hero that prime has more courage than he does and now achilles submits to priam and the two..."
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"Then you have the Turks emerge. This is the Mongol Empire. And as you can see, they conquer basically most of the world. And..."
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"...not in lack of understanding, but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dear to know, have..."
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"...Norse mythology its purpose is to express and promote three values. Courage loyalty and resourcefulness. Right? So the example of courage is Odin. At..."
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"world tree and he goes into different realms and he meets a god who has something called the well of cosmic knowledge. You drink..."
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"...afterwards he resurrected himself. Okay. So Odin personifies the idea of courage in the Viking world. To seek the unknown relentlessly. Okay. Even if..."
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"What do these stories tell us about the understanding of the individual in the Viking world? This is Neil Price and to prepare for..."
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"You nurture it by showing courage. So in battle if you run off if you enter the battle of courage the pet will be..."
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"believes at this time that the dead can only find peace in the afterlife if they're buried. Okay? So for Achilles to torment Hector's..."
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"...of this old man who at this moment has demonstrated more courage, more strength than Achilles has ever witnessed. Okay? So, in this act..."
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