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644 South African Quotes

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

Animals Change Heart Interest
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
Close Cruel Hearts Order
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

Better Clearer Fiction Saying
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

About Animal Animals Belong
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
Fiction Interpret My Own Own
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

About Beings Constant Human
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

African Because Clearly European
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

After Claims Diligently Elizabeth
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
Confession End Oneself Tell
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Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

About Around Book Comic
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I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

Activity Any Child Children
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
Autobiography Storytelling Writing
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

Africa Bleeding Body Busy
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

African Bondage Exactly Expect
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Education is a liberator – the education of one person has the power to change outcomes in a village. Educated people who are successful make success accessible in unlikely neighborhoods.

Education Liberator Person Power
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Our mindset every day is a battle. If we have an inclusive culture everyone will be able to perform at their best,

Mindset Battle Inclusive Culture
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Equality is good for the economy, good for the community and good for our daughters. Having an equal society isn’t simply a favour towards women, and we need to have men alongside us fighting for equality.

Equality Economy Community Daughters
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In business and life, you have to work hard, you have to have integrity and you have to choose your partners carefully.

Business Life Work Integrity
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If you stick to stereotypes about who can lead, you will have a very mediocre leadership.

Stick Stereotypes Lead Mediocre leadership
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The only way out of poverty is through quality education. Any self-respecting country has to be able to educate its poor, and this includes comprehensive free higher education for academically deserving students.

Poverty Quality Education Country
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To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.

Education Sink deep Minds Generation
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You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

Never Have unity Go Your way
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…Only an educated people, a skilled people, an enlightened people, can be a free people.

Educated people Skilled Enlightened
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Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.

Young people Economy Creative Imaginative
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Leaders are meant to lead from the front, but at the same time, they are also meant to listen to what their followers are saying.

Leaders Front Listen Followers
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There’s only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn’t give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

So much Can do Chance Nothing
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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves because then they just get labeled.

I think Women Very scared Celebrate
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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

I learned Career Things Power over
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Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It’s about something greater. It’s about acceptance.
Marriage Equality Greater Acceptance
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A lot of times, we think we have to do it alone so we don’t appear weak, but it’s totally okay to ask for help

Times Think Appear weak Help
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More people are gravitating towards nationalism and extremism, and this is all because people believe democracy doesn’t work for them.

More people Gravitating towards Nationalism
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…it’s not in the nature of democracy to exclude, real democracy is inclusive.

Nature Democracy Exclude
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Without inclusiveness, social justice and participation in any democracy, peace is an illusion…
Inclusiveness Social justice Participation
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Things look harder than they seem before you start, the middle does get messy, but if you stay on, things eventual workout.

Harder Start Stay on Things
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…if people can understand the concept of democracy, they can influence what is planted in this democracy.

Understand Concept Democracy Influence
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When things are not going well, people tend to view any change as a good change. It gives people hope that this might be better than yesterday.

When things Going well Change Hope
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Inequality is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, inequality creates fractures but on the other hand, inequality undermines our ability to progress.

Inequality Sword Create fractures
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Integrity is the hidden dimension to ethics.

Integrity Hidden dimension
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Compromising your integrity means putting everything you have ever worked for at risk.

Compromising Your integrity Worked for Risk
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If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.

Continue Right things Exciting Competitive
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
Education Heart Achieving Dreams
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
Youth World Hungry Succeed
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The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded has to be created. But you mustn’t create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness…devoid of building a world-class, sustainable black business community.

System Creating opportunities Law excluded
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One has to set high standards, I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Set High standards Happy Mediocre performance
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I have confidence in mining, I see exciting opportunities in it.

Have confidence Mining Opportunities
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I want to be remembered as someone who touched lives, made a difference and gave back to society.

Remembered Touched Back Society
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Mentorship is the blueprint. We give and we receive.

Mentorship Blueprint Receive
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Young people need to be taught financial management. My mother taught me to live within my means and never depend on debt.
Young people Financial management Live Means
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Let philosophers argue over why life works as it does. Our duty is to focus on how we live it. The choices we make and to be mindful of the consequences of our choices.

Let philosophers Life work Focus
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Let us see more in others than they see in themselves, there is no greater gift to give one another.

See more Others Themselves Greatest gift
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