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"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."
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"I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older."
"The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were. Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already."
"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."
"By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy."
"For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes."
"With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy."
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"When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime."
"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
"Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all."
"At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said."
"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
"The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle."
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
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