"I think if you read the story as bad guy turns good guy, then clearly it is a clichÃ©. But my experience, when I spent three years working with young people in the townships on issues principally around HIV/AIDS, is that people are usually neither entirely good or bad. They are usually variations of both. Just because someone is a carjacker doesn't mean they are a ruthless cold-blooded murderer."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Gavin Hood

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Don't chase accomplishments , people or positions to find your worth. You're already loved as you are by the Father.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Nov 21, 2016
“Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends.”

Source : "9 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Cyrus the Great" by Ryan Holiday, www.forbes.com. April 19, 2012.
“Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.”
“To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.”

Source : Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.363
“After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.”
“The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer - the finest homes, the finest college educations, and the finest jobs in Government we can give.”
“Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.”

Source : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.159, Courier Corporation
“Our liberality should not exceed our ability.”

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