"If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Ingrid Betancourt

#Country Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Want Quotes

“People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.”
“Pray that I would keep my focus on the Lord, no matter what.”

Source : "Frances Newton: Faith on Death Row". Interview with Terry Meeuwsen, www.cbn.com.
“The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.”
“Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.”
“Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.”
“Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.”

Source : Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books
“Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?”
“Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.”

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