Pecan Corner: QOTD: Weaponless 62 Year Old French Train Hero on Overcoming Fear

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

"Once you start moving, you aren't afraid anymore."

Chris Norman, 62 year old Britisher who, even though unarmed, helped subdue an armed Islamic terrorist aboard a French train.

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"The truth is, the greatest works for eternity are done not in mass crusades, but with one saint reaching one lost soul. "

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~ Albert Einstein

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~ George Eliot

"Get up. Always. Get up."
~ Ty Murray, on what to do when thrown off a bucking bull

"Once you start moving, you aren't afraid anymore."

~ Chris Norman, Britisher who, even though unarmed, helped subdue an armed Islamic terrorist aboard a French train.

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"And always, always, always use your own brain rather than borrowing someone else's."
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"How do you know the feller what wrote the readin', wrote the readin' right?" ~ Festus Hagin in Gunsmoke (actor Ken Curtis)

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
~ C.S. Lewis

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." ~ Robert A. Heinlein

"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. "
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

QOTD: Weaponless 62 Year Old French Train Hero on Overcoming Fear

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