By the grace of God, I will finish what I have started.

Lailah Gifty Akita
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At a checkpoint in the 1980s, when a man from the Republic of Georgia was being held by the Soviets, he said this to his captors. The Soviets thought he was saying he would be hanged for escaping prison. In fact, he was saying that God would put an end to his suffering and let him go free.

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