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Michel de Montaigne quote: "The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is..."

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back. I struck another light, and waved it in their dazzled faces. You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!—as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment. H. G. Wells
Ninette de Valois quote: "Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get..."
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. Ninette de Valois
I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste. Tab Hunter
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain. Diane Abbott
The marketing people are always talking about something called 'consumers'. I have this image of a fat little man in baggy Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with beer-can openers dangling from it, clutching fistfuls of dollars. Robert James Waller
You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school. Michael Crichton
I don’t want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don’t love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can’t get things done. Henry Rollins
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. Jorge Luis Borges
What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive. Richard Trumka
Lao Tzu quote: "How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter..."
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? Lao Tzu
Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening. Gavin MacLeod
Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money. Ian MacKaye
Ayrton Senna quote: "You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That..."
You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not. Ayrton Senna
Gary Sheffield quote: "I trust no one totally."
I trust no one totally. Gary Sheffield
During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus. Michel Patini