Our time here on the earth is ...

Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came together in such a way that I was able to take what fragile defense I had and hold in place for seventy-six days. If I was able to give much it was only because I had some useful things from my life to give. I am a hotel manager...my job never changed, even in a sea of fire.
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 Paul Rusesabagina

Quotes from the same author

Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.
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 Paul Rusesabagina
I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.
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 Paul Rusesabagina
A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world community can stop finding ways to dither in the face of this monstrous threat to humanity those words Never Again will persist in being one of the most abused phrases in the English language and one of the greatest lies of our time.
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Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.
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 Paul Rusesabagina