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The invisible fuel that runs out silently, then everything stalls at once.
means The collective confidence and spirit of a person or group, especially their willingness to keep going through hardship.
from Comes from French 'morale,' the feminine form of 'moral,' itself from Latin 'moralis' (relating to conduct or character), from 'mos/moris' meaning custom or manner. The word drifted from questions of ethics into questions of mental state and discipline, especially in a military sense — by the 19th century 'morale' in English had settled into its familiar meaning: the state of a group's courage and resolve, borrowed back from French with the final 'e' intact to mark it as a distinct, imported idea from plain 'moral.'
- not happiness
- you can be miserable and still fight hard
- military origin
- from French moral, army's mental fortitude
- contagious
- spreads faster through groups than any memo
- cheap fix myth
- pizza parties rarely outlast the free pizza