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Quotes by Statesman
"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
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"Life is a continuous learning experience."
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"The easiest way to have a peek behind the curtain is to learn from those that are ahead of you."
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"For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant."
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"This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan."
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"We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her."
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."
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"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
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"See people in the light of their potentials, not their problems."
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"I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which never happened."
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"His Christianity was muscular."
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"Great dream or idea comes up when you are thinking of something other than yourself."
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"Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is however a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome."
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"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."
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"Reason is the mistress and queen of all things."
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"What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?"
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"Respond to your ability, play your part and make your mark in history."
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"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
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"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
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"Queen of arts and daughter of heaven."
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"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."
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"Talk is cheap, action is expensive."
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"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got."
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"Where you stand depends on where you sit."
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"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."
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"I love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes from the pots, sitting around a table with the family and taking out my wife and children. when you can no longer enjoy these simple pleasures something valuable is taken away from your life and you feel it in your daily work."
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"Youths are our arrows to the future."
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