"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."

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Source : L'Officiel magazine, Summer 1980.

Ruth Gordon

#Courage Quotes #Important Quotes #Use Quotes

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”

Source : "A Man Without a Country: A Memoir Of Life In George W Bush's America". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, September 15, 2005.
“When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.”
“My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.”
“A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution.”

Source : "The Development of Operations Research as a Science". Operations Research, Volume 4, No. 3, pp. 265-295, www.jstor.org. June 1956.
“Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.”
“It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment â€” the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. Itâ€™s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.”
“Something that is appealing is wars are terrible and ugly and hard and each conflict is different, but of every conflict I've ever gone to, I've also seen people being extraordinary in a good sense. It's not just a black and white extreme situation that pushes people to extremes and they do crazy bad stuff. You also see crazy brave stuff. You see humanity in a different light.”
“I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already.”

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