"I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive."

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Source : "Journalist kidnapped in Somalia: Reunion with mom 'felt like home'" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

Amanda Lindhout

#Thinking Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.”
“I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.”
“Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.”
“My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.”
“The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law.”
“I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.”

Source : John Betjeman, Stephen Games (2006). “Trains and buttered toast: selected radio talks”, John Murray Pubs Ltd
“"Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To respond through touch, sight, smell, and sound to all things in nature - both organic and inorganic-to colors, shapes, and textures - to not only look at a blade of grass but to really see a blade of grass. These things, to me, are what life and living are all about. I would call it "Humanism."”
“When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.”

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