"There were times when I was frustrated, and cried and felt helpless, but the reality in Ethiopia is that you don't have much of an option. You either keep quiet or you get added to the list of people being jailed or killed."

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Feyisa Lilesa

#Reality Quotes #People Quotes #Frustrated Quotes

“The great ones realize that what you did yesterday guarantees you nothing today. The challenge is too many people are busy celebrating yesterday's success.”

Source : "Don Yaeger on “Great Teams”: Part 1". Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. September 28, 2016.
“One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.”
“Girls learn sexiness, women teach class.”
“The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the West, for example, people believe they must 'pursue happiness' as if it were some kind of a flighty bird that is always out of reach. In the East, we believe we are born with happiness and one of life's important takes, my mother told me, is to protect it.”

Source : Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven & Earth Change Places”, p.29, Doubleday
“[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.”
“The warming we've experienced in the late 20th century could just as easily be explained by small decreases in cloud cover - natural changes in the system - and have nothing to do with CO2.”
“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.”

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