Heroic people take risks to themselves t... by Gregg Easterbrook

People Writer Author Nothing May

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Other quotes by Gregg Easterbrook

History Now Being

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Faces People

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Diaries Mind World

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Happiness Money

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Present Day Now

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Controversy Writing Writer

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

- Gregg Easterbrook

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