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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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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I don't really read books. Wish I did.
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I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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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.
