Dan Rather Quotes
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
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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?'
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability.
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
