"Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit."

Jonathan Shapiro, South African Cartoonist

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"Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit."

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"Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King."

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"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."

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"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas."

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"We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise."

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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

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