#uma

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing. ↗

— David Letterman

#because #behavior #believe #courage #courageous

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#breadth #captive #development #fences #get

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#dominating #follow #human #human mind #mind

So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#been #change #conclusions #considered #draw

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. ↗

— M. Esther Harding

#being #both #brought #consciousness #feminine

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen. ↗

— Samantha Mathis

#being #come #create #everything #full

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

#die #humanity #immortal #life #long

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ↗

— John Buchan

#elicit #greatness #humanity #into #leadership

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics. ↗

— Kate Millett

#blight #condition #copes #except #find

We are all cells in the same body of humanity. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#cells #humanity #same