Gyorgy Konrad quotes
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“Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.”
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“You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.”
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“I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.”
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“Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.”
-- Gyorgy KonradSource : György Konrád (1995). “The Melancholy of Rebirth: Essays from Post-communist Central Europe, 1989-1994”, Harcourt
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“I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.”
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Source : Alan Keyes' Speech at Israel's Independence Day Festival Alan Keyes' Speech at Israel's Independence Day Festival in Los Angeles, California, www.keyesarchives.com. April 21, 2002.
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“Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.”
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