"I knew that I was not doing anything wrong, and I knew in my mind I was doing the right thing. I knew that the people who were going against me were not going against me for a good purpose. I knew that they were trying to justify their corruption and misgovernance."

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Wangari Maathai

#People Quotes #Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes

“People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.”
“The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) has done things that are far more heinous than anything Grant Ward has ever done as far as we know, and yet, at the end of the movie, you're rooting for him to come back on the side of the angels,”
“The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.63, The Floating Press
“If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else”
“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'”
“We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.”
“There will be no more British guys. Unless they are members of the royal family, of course.”
“I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.”

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