"We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind of irrational fear that leads itself to demagogic rhetoric is something that we have to say no - no, we're not going to go there."

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Source : "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

Russell D. Moore

#People Quotes #Looks Quotes #Irrational Fear Quotes

“When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.”
“My life closed twice before its close”
“I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.”
“I always second-guess what I am doing.”
“Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.”
“It’s not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn’t even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.”

Source : Rosario Castellanos (2010). “A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays and Drama”, p.356, University of Texas Press
“Iâ€™m an insomniac lately. Itâ€™s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship],”
“Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it.”

Source : "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". Pp. 369-370. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.

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