A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
Jules Feiffer
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.