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Quotes by South-african Authors
"Since marriage is for two people, it is difficult to remain in it when one person steps out of it."
"It's a general rule " a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had to respond to distress calls. Unless of course it places their own lives in danger. Bearing this thought in mind, as you can probably tell by my writing, my fingers are beginning to tremble slightly."
"It is very sad to see children live like orphans whilst their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents."
"Leaders should never look down on the people who put them into power because every leadership requires followers."
"The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colony on the frontier could be founded, the Senate and Triumvirate would have to pass the plan. Factors influencing the High Lords decision would include, among others, the number of people needed to found the colony and whether this would result in any significant population shift. Another, more critical factor would be whether Tactical Defense could spare the ships or the manpower to patrol the area."
"To expect the other people to spoon-feed you shows the lack of hunger, thirst or drive to push forward the things you desire to accomplish."
"Great leaders make an impact with limited resources and inefficient leaders cannot yield good returns even with abundant resources."
"After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us."
"The weapon he held in his sweaty grip was one of a small consignment of prototypes received at the last port of call. The experts said it was the most powerful hand weapon in the known universe. He choked. That would soon be put to the test!"
"In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day."
"There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones."
"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."
"People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves."
"OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality."
"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
"In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home."
"He's very concealed, Polanski. We became very close friends, but I don't think I ever saw him drop his guard. I didn't see him upset or anything like that, we just did the work."
"I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments."
"I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things."
"So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that."
"The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections."
"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."
"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."
"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped."
"We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people."
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
"As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison."
"Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization make."
"Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over."
"It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative."
"Teachable spirit makes you crave for more wisdom and knowledge."
"If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn't have to work until retirement comes to their rescue."
"A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten."
"Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue."
"Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human."
"If my journey was so easy, I would have missed out on life's invaluable lessons. From misery I learnt to comfort those in tears, from lack I learnt to give to the needy; from uncertainty I learnt to understand others and from my silence I learnt to speak for the voiceless."
"Chances are that whatever that you are worried about-be it a person or a thing-isn't worried about you."
"In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other."
"It is impossible to have a public trial if you can't guarantee the safety of witnesses, judges or defense counsel."
"With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind."
"South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts."
"On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles."
"Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn't as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front."
"Some people are so sexually unattractive that the thought of masturbating turns them off."
"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans."
"To take away a man's sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants."
"Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business."
"Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand."
"This is not your standard "How to restore your VW Beetle book. It's also not a workshop manual. Aside from a basic rundown on the differences between various bug models through the years, there is a section on some things you can do to preserve your bug. Mostly however, what I've done is reviewed all the things I did to my bugsand put those ideas together as cheap, skillful, cheap, d.i.y, cheap means of enhancing your grocery getter's performance and handling."
"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic."
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