"These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know"

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Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

John Hume

#Children Quotes #Perception Quotes #Important Quotes

“As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.”
“I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?”
“Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.”
“In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.”
“He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human .”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.
“Your will to succeed remains one of your greatest assets.”
“I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.”
“Fish got to swim, birds got to fly I got to love one man till I die Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.”

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