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Quotes by Leader
"I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth."
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"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects."
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"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."
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"We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue."
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"It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration."
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"Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me."
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"To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's."
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"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."
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"Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us."
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"I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then."
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"The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach."
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"All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture."
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"Those who believe in humanity must come together to fight for it as one, and speak against this menace in one voice. Terrorism must be de-legitimized."
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"I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things."
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"Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it."
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"Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress."
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"For a long time, priority has been given to spread education. This was necessary. But today more than expanding education what is necessary is to improve the quality of education. We will have to shift our priority from literacy campaign to good education. From now onward, more than schooling, we will have to lay stress on learning."
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"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."
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"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
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"Clean drinking water not only means better health but also ensures stronger growth of the economy. When the water table rises, the quality of the water and quality of life improves.""
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"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."
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"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."
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"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
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"People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top."
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"So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day."
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"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea."
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"I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."
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"The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion."
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"No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes."
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