"I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Fighting Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Justified Quotes

“The best way to get a move to work is to make it so uncomfortable that the opponent gives it to you to stop the pain.”
“We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.”
“It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.”

Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.45, Cambridge University Press
“Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.”
“Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise.”
“Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.”

Source : "Jim Beaver Interview - SUPERNATURAL". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 22, 2008.
“I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.”

Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.53, Simon and Schuster
“I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.”

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