Ger Duany quotes

“We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations we should do so with compassion.”
-- Ger Duany

Source : "South Sudan 'Lost boy' tells of hope for new nation" by Ger Duany, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2012.

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“I knew that I was smart enough to learn. I knew that I could learn, if I could just go to school and not hear gunshots.”
-- Ger Duany

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“I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.”
-- Ger Duany

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“The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.”

“Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.”

Source : "Saudi Prince Urges Ground Zero Mosque Be Moved" by Cindy E. Rodriguez, abcnews.go.com. October 28, 2010.

“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”

“I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.”

“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”

“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”

Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U

“Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 24, 2013

“I don't look at myself as suffering.”

“Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.”

“You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.”