"Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined."

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Leo Rosten

#Inspirational Quotes #Courage Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“What are we even doing out here?" Burnett asked, seemingly getting more frustrated the longer he considered things. "The orders were to wait until tomorrow. Why do I give orders around here if no one listens to them?”
“The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers, His giant wings prevent him from walking.”
“I think that Anderson Cooper does a great job of staying with stories and pushing them. New Orleans he really... He was there and he pushed it past the point where his producers were saying, "Listen, you've got to stop because people are tuning out now. You know, we're on to another disaster." You know, what do you worry about, Haiti, Chile, Turkey? What? You know where do you put your attention and your focus? So for one person to really be able to cover all that ground would be tough.”

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“Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”
“Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man...”
“It wasnâ€™t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didnâ€™t burst from lamps, and talking fish didnâ€™t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstoneâ€™s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasnâ€™t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasnâ€™t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.”
“When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. Iâ€™ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift.”
“Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.”

Source : Il Giornale, January 05, 1990.

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