"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."

-- Eddie Rickenbacker

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“The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set forth in Pindar's second Olympian: after three or six lives in which a man has lived with strict justice and perfect integrity, he passes beyond the tower of Cronus to the fair realm that cannot be reached by land or sea, where gentle breezes from a placid ocean blow forever on the fields of asphodel. For a description, see Pindar. If the beauty of great poetry can commend a religion, here you have it.”

Source : "Afterthoughts on Afterlife". "Instauration" Magazine, August 1980.
“I have never driven a Ferrari.”
“Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important. You should not persecute people for their beliefs. It doesn't mean you can't criticize their beliefs.”

Source : "Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason", billmoyers.com. June 30, 2006.
“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.”

Source : Joseph Sugarman (1980). “Success forces”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
“I'm still the same artist; it's just different sides of me. I'm learning to be a little bit more confident in myself and I think that's something that all of us girls struggle with. It's really about defining your confidence.”

Source : "Jamie Lynn Spears Is All Grown Up and Taking the Country Music Scene by Storm". Interview with Popsugar, www.popsugar.com. June 23, 2016.
“Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.”

Source : Mary E DeMuth (2012). “Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus”, p.30, Thomas Nelson
“I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.”
“The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.”

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