“By the twentieth of April, the story was widely accepted and was viewed as one of the most heartening acts of bravery in the whole tragedy.”
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 10
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Source: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
“For sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.”
Aliquando enim et vivere fortiter facere est
Seneca, Ad Lucilium epistulae morales, transl. Richard M. Grummere, 1920 ed., Epistle LXXVIII, pp. 181-182
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind
“It should be noticed that the whole approach is in contradiction to generally accepted views.”
Source: Theory of Economic Dynamics (1965), Chapter 1, Cost and Prices, p. 17
“The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.”
Source: The Humans
Countdown With Keith Olbermann, 2009 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELy61zkZHO0 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/16/cable-anchors-guests-use-tea-parties-platform-frat-house-humor/
On MSNBC
“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.”
Source: Articles, Come September (29 Sep 2002)
“One of the reasons religions are widely accepted is spiritual laziness and its resulting fear.”
Ai Weiwei on Twitter in English (beta). (December 24, 2010) http://aiwwenglish.tumblr.com/
2010-, Twitter feeds, 2010-12