All of civility depends on ...

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
 Joshua Lederberg

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.
 Joshua Lederberg
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 Joshua Lederberg
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
 Joshua Lederberg