"No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect."

-- Anne Bronte

#Mind Quotes #Delight Quotes #Cherish Quotes

“I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?”
“I remember I had had one woman who had three or four kids, and some of them were having problems. I said, 'Maybe you could go write somewhere else, away from your house.' And sure enough, all kinds of wonderful stuff emerged. She was keeping too much charge of herself because she couldn't stop being a mother when she was in the house. You have to find your own way of letting loose, if you're one of those people.”
“Police do not work at the immediate direction of the communities they serve, but through their institutional connections. Police departments may develop structures, modi operandi, and cultures that are ethically problematic.”
“I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know had that moment when they heard Earl Scruggs. So, for me, it transcends the technique. It's the musician in him and his personality, his musical personality, such great taste, such great technique, very, very creative.”
“If you do all that work of figuring out exactly how writing is done, then it's available to you at anytime, and you can build on it. It's like the difference between shooting one hoop and having it go in by accident and saying later, 'I shot a basket,' - and practicing so much you can do it whenever you want.”
“I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.”

Source : "Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda". Book by Romeo Dallaire, books.google.ru. 2003.
“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
“Jesus loves me, this I know...”

Source : "The Love of Jesus" l. 1 (1858)

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