"Courage is more important than confidence"

-- Dani Shapiro

#Important Quotes

“And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.”
“If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.”
“I'm straight edge, and that means I'm better than you.”
“To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.”

Source : Eliphas Levi (1996). “The Paradoxes of the Highest Science”, p.45, Health Research Books
“Getting it off the ground is one thing because it has to do with finding the proper people and the financing, but finding the subject is another thing and this is always for me the most difficult part.”
“Basketball is not played simply with X's and O's. It's played with both trust and confidence.”
“I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.”

Source : Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.318, Pan Macmillan
“Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita”

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