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Quotes by Rwandan Authors
"What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope."
"Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways."
"Somethings are simply better left the way they are."
"A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls."
"The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it's not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of robbery and live. These thieves are praised as national heroes and liberators or as successful entrepreneurs."
"Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some."
"As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal."
"What some politicians really mean when they saythis country: me, my party, my ethnic groupinternational justice is biased: they want to arrest meterrorists: oppositionillegal immigrants: refugeeselections: remaining in powerpeace: eliminating the oppositioninternational community: the rich countriesthe people: sympathisers of my party."
"Live in your dream. Refuse to wake up until it is completely over. Then dream again."
"There are no superior or inferior races. No one is intrinsically inferior or superior. All have the same value as creatures of god. Those who put others down simply want to exploit them."
"Falling in love is literally falling from your independence to let another control your life."
"In love the brain is situated in the heart."
"Love has its own eyes, and they are more efficient at the beginning and faulty at the end."
"Never be an insincere friend, never be manipulative, one day you will be discovered and lose everything."
"When you look down on yourself, you set an example on how others should treat you."
"Competition may help us create better products and services but in the end competition really seeks to destroy the opponent. To put him out of the power to compete against you."
"It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue."
"Woman must be financially independent to be free in love."
"After losing faith, even an atheist feels a yawning void in his soul that needs filling; there is nothing imaginable that he can fill with it. It was all along meant to be filled with the sacred, with the unknown and unknowable power. That's the curse or blessing of humanity."
"You cannot write if you are not on fire."
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