Nelson Mandela Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
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I like big crowds. I find it easier to focus.
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Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.
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That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.
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I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.
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The yen has retraced some of its recent losses against the dollar, but expectations of a strong U.S. consumer confidence number are keeping the dollar broadly supported.
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How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have their own morality and nothing else matters.
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Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.
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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.
