"Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation."

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Source : Nigel Forbes Dennis (1949). “A Sea Change”

Nigel Dennis

#Courage Quotes #Self Quotes #Risk Quotes

“When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.”

Source : Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.86, Simon and Schuster
“The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.”
“The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.”
“My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.”
“You're not traveling if you already know everything.”

Source : Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.68, Penguin
“Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.”
“As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.”

Source : "The Saga of the Nerve Growth Factor: Preliminary Studies, Discovery, Further Development".
“Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.”

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