Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Quotes
It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
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Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
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Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.
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Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music.
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I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.
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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
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Donald Trump himself has an idiosyncratic speaking style that relies on simple words and phrases, which worked for him in the primaries but may be coming up short for him now.
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The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
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When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
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If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.
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In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a "well-rounded detective" was a jibe around his weight.
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It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.
