"Living in fear is just another way of dying before your time."

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Source : "A Veteran on Why War Survivors Need to Keep Taking Risks" by Richard Allen Smith, www.esquire.com. May 25, 2015.

Mike Cooley

#Dying Quotes #Way Quotes #Living In Fear Quotes

“I am in any way glorifying or simplifying prostitution. The reality of prostitutes around the world is so complex. I've tried to focus on the humanity.”
“When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.”
“No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and father and no man would ever conceive of those relationships as instruments of his prime function in life. Yet every woman is raised, still, to believe that the fulfillment of these relationships is her prime function in life and, what's more, her instinctive choice.”

Source : Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers
“Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesnâ€™t matter which politician or political party you vote for; and theyâ€™re catching on that it doesnâ€™t even matter if you donâ€™t vote because they have realized modern elections are just a way for the 1% to appease the 99% â€“ a way to keep the masses in line by making them believe theyâ€™ve had their say, thereby perpetuating the lie that democracy continues.”
“You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit”
“So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.”

Source : Quoted in Maria Edgeworth, Harry and Lucy (1825).
“I am a Westerner of Westerners!”
“Attention: a sacred energy coming into me. Be sensitive to it. Recognize again and again that it is there”

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