"People consider me more as hero. Apparently they like the way I stand up, for myself and give my opinion. The french speaking people weren't much of a person like me."

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Source : Source: historymaryan.blogspot.com

Louis Riel

#Hero Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.”
“I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.”

Source : "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Americans" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.
“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.”
“We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.”
“You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.”
“I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.”
“Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.”
“For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.”

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