"I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives."

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Marguerite Yourcenar

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Heroism Quotes

“President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some miscalculations and misjudgments there,' but he is so stubbornly arrogant - he just sticks with that same formula that he has in talking about the war on Iraq that just defies the reality that we all see on the ground.”

Source : "Debating the first debate" by Dan Lothian, Dana Bash, John King, Candy Crowley Richard Shumate and Ed Payne, edition.cnn.com. October 3, 2004.
“It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.”
“Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?”
“I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.”
“The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it.”
“In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.”
“Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.”
“Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.”

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