"Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third."

-- Joseph Epstein

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“Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.”

Source : Felicia Hemans (2002). “The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text Edition”, p.91, Broadview Press
“We're not going to fix the sexual harassment epidemic unless we can acknowledge that this is not a women's issue, this is a man's issue. The burden should not be on the shoulders of women only to solve this, because we can't do it alone and it's not fair. We're seeing now the tsunami of all these women coming forward, which is such a blessing. But the tipping point will be when men in the workplace decide to be our allies.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.”

Source : Katharine Tynan (1913). “Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences”
“A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.”
“What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning.”
“I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more.”
“We lost one, we won two and we lost another one. We'll take 50 percent in four years in championships any day. Obviously, we want to win all of them, but that's just the nature of the game. Not proud of the way we played in this series.”
“We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.”

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