"I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference."

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Mother Teresa

#Thinking Quotes #Differences Quotes #People Quotes

“Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.”
“God does give us the history of his people.”
“Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the current attitude toward and treatment of gay men and women by the Russian government. The situation is in no way acceptable, and I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.”
“As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.”

Source : Scott Turow (2006). “Limitations”, p.56, Macmillan
“Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didnâ€™t, and then you lived with the choice you made.”
“With a cold"--she spoke evenly, lowering her eyes a little--"now is the hardest time. Maybe even harder than dying. But this is probably as bad as it can get. You might come to fear the next time you get a cold; it will be as bad as this, but if you just hold steady, it won't be. For the rest of your life. That's how it works. You could take the negative view and live in fear: Will it happen again? But it won't hurt so much if you just accept it as a part of life." With that she looked up at me, smiling.”
“History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.”
“There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.”

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