Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.
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This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.
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Sometimes, moms have to be creative to get their babies to eat healthy.
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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.
