"Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck."

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Courage Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Effort Quotes

“But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.”
“Well I think everything up to this point that I've been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I'm not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don't think I follow any discipline traditionally.”
“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”

Source : "Freedom". Book by Jonathan Franzen, 2010.
“You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.”
“Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.”
“The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself...The more you learn, the more you'll earn.”
“The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.”

Source : Fredric Wertham (1972). “Seduction of the innocent”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“We have a complete respect for history, we respect the experiences of other countries and we have our own, but the truth is that if the Cuban revolution had not been a democracy it would not have survived.”

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