P. W. Botha Quotes
The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
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After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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How we treat our fellow creatures is only one more way in which each one of us, every day, writes our own epitaph-bearing into the world a message of light and life or just more darkness and death, adding to the world's joy or to its despair.
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The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.
