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Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.


David Gemmell

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DAVID CASSIDY It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
DAVID CASSIDY We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates internat...
DAVID HAREWOOD The law always limits every power it gives.
DAVID HUME There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.
DAVID RUSSELL False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
DAVID MITCHELL This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
DAVID LYNCH I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that...
DAVID HARSANYI Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end ...
DAVID HEWSON Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds...
DAVID HANSON If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.
DAVID SEDARIS College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college e...
DAVID SZE What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
DAVID MAMET I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ...
DAVID LACHAPELLE Gribenes have been referred to as Jewish popcorn or kosher pork rinds. It's basically chicken sk...
DAVID SAX Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two wh...
DAVID EINHORN I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being...
DAVID EINHORN During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first pr...
DAVID EINHORN I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of g...
DAVID EINHORN I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
DAVID EINHORN My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. Wh...
DAVID EINHORN There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.
DAVID EINHORN On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn...
DAVID EINHORN Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and yo...
DAVID EINHORN Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ...
DAVID CRYSTAL I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one coun...
DAVID HILBERT Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe...
DAVID MIXNER