"Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right."

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Source : Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.18, A&C Black

Derrick Bell

#Fear Quotes #Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.”
“Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.”
“When its going good, cash in as hard as you can.”
“I think my generation has grown up knowing that you don't pay attention to trolls because trollin's what they do.”

Source : "The Showrunner Transcript: Cougar Town's Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel on the Show's Transformation and Masturbating Time Travelers". Interview with Josef Adalian, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.
“You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And empathy is one of those muscles.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.”
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
“I don't feel old or young, I just am”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 27, 2018

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