#oura

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ↗

— Lloyd Kaufman

#die #each #eating #encouraged #hours

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#brought #chosen #courage #fact #forgotten

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#abyss #battle #courage #die #entering

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#courage #enjoy #i #level #messenger

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#courage #damn #damn fool #desire #fool

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#encourage #every #highest #his #idea

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#breed #campbell #check #encouragement #got

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american #american history #because #could #encouragement

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?' ↗

— Lady Gaga

#bravery #bullied #courage #fact #i

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens. ↗

— Daryl Hall

#bunch #entourage #funny #happens #put