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Quotes by South-african Authors
"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."
"Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP."
"Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man."
"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?"
"Twitter gives people an illusionary sense of leadership."
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
"I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that."
"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."
"The dream giver [God] will remove mountains, He'll fill valleys, He'll straighten crocket ways for you to fulfil your dreams. And His timing is the best."
"I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to."
"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
"To plan and talk is good but to plan and take action is even greater."
"One positive idea can solve the situation you in, can make a massive difference and change your life forever."
"Some lessons are learnt the hard way, but worth it."
"When you discipline a child, you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood."
"I am thankful to God everyday for the Gift of Life because even if I were the richest in the world, I still wouldn't afford to buy Life."
"Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are."
"The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement."
"The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."
"I loved it in the unconditional way that children love their first home."
"Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections."
"One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer."
"Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor."
"The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests."
"It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology."
"When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."
"Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another."
"AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching."
"I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here."
"The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them."
"To halve the number of times that other people hurt you: halve the number of expectations that you have from other people."
"At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules."
"I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks."
"Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that."
"If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor."
"I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me."
"I don't think we will ever go the way of Zimbabwe, but people are concerned."
"Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small."
"But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up."
"And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources."
"There was never a great man who had not a great mother."
"I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper."
"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"
"In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education. These are, of course, important in measuring one's success in material matters and it is perfectly understandable if many people exert themselves mainly to achieve all these. But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualites which are within reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life."
"Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn."
"Imaginative mind is the seed of every dream and every vision. It always starts from our minds before the manifestation."
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