"Valor is the contempt of death and pain."

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Tacitus

#Pain Quotes #Valor Quotes #Contempt Quotes

“Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.”
“Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.”

Source : Eberhard Arnold (1997). “God's Revolution: Justice, Community, and the Coming Kingdom”, p.137, The Plough Publishing House
“Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.”
“Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.”
“I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.”
“We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations have little to do with reality. Weâ€™re storytelling creatures by nature, and we tell ourselves story after story until we come up with an explanation that we like and that sounds reasonable enough to believe. And when the story portrays us in a more glowing and positive light, so much the better.”

Source : "The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves". Book by Dan Ariely, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.
“Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.”

Source : George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.35, New York : C. Scribner
“Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.”

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