"This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency."

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Source : Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.130, Bloomsbury Publishing

Paul Rusesabagina

#Stubborn Quotes #Weapons Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“I'm a horror movie fanatic.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.”

Source : "Consciousness and Language". Book by John Searle, 2002.
“I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on.”
“At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.”
“There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.”
“The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.”

Source : Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1795). “The Œconomy of Human Life: Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin. To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Manner in which the Said Manuscript was Discovered. In a Letter from an English Gentleman Now Residing in China to the Earl of E****..”, p.48
“There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.”
“The glow dies down, and she's standing at the end of my bed--the one who's been following me around leaving feather messages. I take in the torn fishnets, plaid mini-kilt, shiny, riveted breastplate with leather straps at the sides and a worn Great Temolo decal near the left shoulder. Her wings are a crazy black-and-white-checkered pattern, like they've been spray-painted at a body shop to look like hipster sneakers.”

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