"everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery!"

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Source : Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.168, ReadHowYouWant.com

Leslie Feinberg

#Bravery Quotes #Scared Quotes

“Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.”
“They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.”

Source : "Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange" compiled by David Barber, 1987.
“Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us to-day. ... The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.”
“When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.”
“We judge people by their appearance so quickly, and we form opinions about people, compartmentalize people, and think we know who they are. But if you sit down and talk with someone for more than 10 minutes, you'll find something in common, no doubt whatsoever.”
“I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.”
“Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.”

Source : "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
“enemies are created, not born ...”

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