"If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win."

-- Walter Reuther

#Inspirational Quotes #Failure Quotes #Winning Quotes

“I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.”
“Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.”

Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.1, Cambridge University Press
“Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.”

Source : Giorgio Agamben (2017). “The Omnibus Homo Sacer”, p.135, Stanford University Press
“If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' oneâ€”and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a nationalist believes his or her nation is better or more advancedâ€”and a racist believes that an inherent difference between each race make his or her ethnicity superior. All of these ideologies spawn the hate, philosophical disagreements, and prejudices that have been the catalysts for various atrocious acts throughout history.”

Source : FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Feb 17, 2015
“Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!”

Source : "Jane Elliot Dishes Her Role as General Hospital's Queen of Mean". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. May 15, 2012.
“In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors.”
“What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.”
“Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You canâ€™t stop thinking about another human being.”

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