courage

"In terms of status and career, a non-conformistic stance in favour of the temple cannot be maintained without sacrifice. By contrast, joining the anti-temple party has always been a smart career move.…"

"On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will giv…"

"I appreciate an old man's cautious opinion more than the valor of a young man."

"Few talk or think about Iraq these days; the media ignores this important but demolished nation. Iraq, let us recall, was the target of a major western aggression concocted by George W Bush, Dick Chen…"

"Between a man and a woman, collaboration and admiration are more natural than competition. The woman accepts the secondary role willingly; she gives the man what he needs in the way of courage and mor…"

"I did poorly the times they did come to see me. So I didn't really encourage them to come see me. I knew that they would attract attention, and I felt kind of self-conscious, I guess."

"I wanted to create a character who didn’t routinely resort to violence and wasn’t courageous by virtue of wielding a gun. I wanted to show someone who was powerful and incisive who could face down the…"

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"Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men …"

"Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around."

"My argument is keeping taxes low will encourage the private sector to create jobs."

"The word hero derives from the root *ser-, from which we also get the word “servant”."

"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition — in having to put forth the best within you."

"Blair likes to say that his party is best when it is bold. So is he--and when he has an unconflicted view of the right and wrong of an issue."

"Routine is the death to heroism."

"I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put o…"

"... For ancient heroes the exhaustive method is possible: all that can be known of them is contained in a few short passages of Greek and Latin, and it is quite possible to say whatever can be said ab…"

"With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents."

"The Phoenicians a thousand years before the Christian era were fearless, progressive and splendid, but... hey traded individually as did the Venetians and even the greats of Augsburg, leaving no trace…"

"If Heaven does not completely abandon this land of the Gods, there must be an uprising of grass-roots heroes."