Augustin Misago quotes
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They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.
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They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did.
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They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke and now they must prove that he was right and that is my great worry.
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Definitely I'm convinced that behind my case there is a trial of the church.
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But I will plead not guilty until death. I will plead not guilty until there is proof to the contrary.
-- Augustin Misago
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.
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Do you believe in miracles?
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The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
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I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.
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There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.
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There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.
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If, by some miracle, you're lucky enough to meet the One, whatever you do, don't let them go. Because you don't get another shot at it. Soulmates aren't like buses; there's not going to be another one along in a minute. That's why they're called 'The One'.
