"I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end..."

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Source : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.199, Macmillan

Ishmael Beah

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“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”
“We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.”
“We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.”
“From it (the Rosary) the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve intact the stainless purity of the soul. Also in it, the old will again find repose, relief, and peace from their anxious cares. And to all those who suffer in any way, especially the dying, may it bring comfort and increase the hope of eternal happiness.”
“When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message...that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.”
“A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.”
“I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are”
“Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!)”

Source : "Back when they were fans". The John Byrne Forum, www.byrnerobotics.com. July 2, 2008.

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