"Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense."

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Source : Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

Paul Rusesabagina

#People Quotes #Decision Quotes #Defense Quotes

“Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.”
“I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.”
“Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.”
“But I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.”

Source : Jerilderie Letter, www.nma.gov.au. 1879.
“The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.”
“To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.”
“The tension between the call to the desert and to the market place arises not from the greater presence of God in one or the other but from our varying psychological needs to apprehend him in different ways.”
“If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well be that of a richer civilization, not its end.”

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