"Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in……" — Joseph Epstein
"Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third."
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46 Quotes by Joseph Epstein
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Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful…
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether…
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A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of…
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One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes…
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What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this…
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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly…
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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
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High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of…
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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence…
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I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in…
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What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words…
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
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I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
— Anthony Bourdain
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Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
— Jo Brand
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We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and…
— Christopher Alexander
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?'…
— Ian Anderson
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not…
— Marina Abramovic
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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the…
— Uwe Reinhardt
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