"Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced."

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Margaret Truman Daniel

#Adventure Quotes #Odds Quotes #Realistic Quotes

“My dad has a great expression. He always says, 'Tell me a fact and I'll learn, tell me the truth and I believe, but tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.' Interestingly enough now, my dad's story is going to be in Canton and hopefully that will live forever, too.”
“Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.”
“Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.”
“I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.”
“What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself.”
“The invasion of Iraq was not an unprecedented event; it really was the natural extension of a conflict with Iraq that began on August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and occupied Kuwait, which was a major oil supplier to the United States.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.”

Source : Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.5, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side”

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