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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. ↗

— Steven Brust

#avoid #before #called #conform #conformity

I would always have been the geek who's your friend. I will never be the dark guy with a sensitive side, as much as I yearn to be. ↗

— Jon Cryer

#been #dark #friend #geek #guy

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. ↗

— Steven Brust

#contest #defeat #end #foreknowledge #honorable

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence. ↗

— John Bruton

#confidence #destroy #economic #nuclear #terrorist

I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it. ↗

— Young Buck

#around #i #just #playing #rapping

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#atheists #back #children #faith #god

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. ↗

— Alan Bullock

#committees #democracy #making #speeches #work

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. ↗

— Herbert Kaufman

#coaches #courage #failure #habit #long

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. ↗

— Arthur Bryant

#possible #say #words #you

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#attain #cop-out #easiest #goal #never