"While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear."

-- Isak Dinesen

#Failure Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Bears Quotes

“The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.”
“How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?”
“The American government has been harvesting the Middle Eastern grapes of wrath for a generation and not making a secret of it, either. As lousy as the mass media may be, there was enough news about what was transpiring, year after year, to get the gist of what was happening... No American can truthfully say that they could not find out what was going on.”
“There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.”
“Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.”
“Free thought, free speech and a free press.”
“How can you veto an idea you haven't heard?”
“For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.”

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