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644 South African Quotes

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every moment with love, grace, integrity, and gratitude

Happiness Traveled Consumed Spiritual experience
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The question we each have to settle is not what we’d do if we had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what we will do with the things we have right now…because we each hold a unique gift for the world.

Question Means Time Influence
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Being part of a team that finds an HIV Vaccine will be my greatest scientific accomplishment.

Being part Finds Vaccine Scientific accomplishment
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HIV pulled me into medical research from a clinician/pediatrician, revolving around young women and their children. It has in some ways enriched me and, in some ways, embattled my life.

Medical research Clinic Revolving around Young women
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Success means doing something that impacts on the lives of others. Success means impact, and means significance.

Success Doing something Lives Impact
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As a medical doctor and scientist, there are many problems to solve, find one that intrigues you and follow it relentlessly by doing research to answer that question.

Medical doctor Scientist Many problems Intrigues
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Love your work so much that it’s easy to work at nights, on the weekends, and you would even do it for free.

Love Your work Weekends Free
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If we are successful in South Africa, there will be bridging studies to anywhere in the world – to East Africa, the U.S., to young girls, to babies,

Successful Bridging studies World
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Every girl needs a father who’s a hero in some way or another.

Every girl Father Hero
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If you ever feel unsafe, the best thing anyone can do for you is to put you in the spotlight.

Feel unsafe Best thing Do Put
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If we are unable to tap into the talent that is locked within us… We will not be able to deal with many of the issues that the world is facing.

Unable Talent Within us Issues
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The opportunities are there! Especially in the non-listed side.

Opportunities Especially Non-listed
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Despite where we are, we have the ability to bring ourselves to another level when we choose to.

Have Ability to Bring ourselves Level
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What happens in the classrooms today predicts what will happen in our country in the future.
What happens Classrooms Predicts Country
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Always have good relationships with people. It doesn’t mean you have to be best friends with everyone but it means whenever you engage with people you are positive and it’s meaningful. That’s how I managed to climb the corporate ladder fast.

Always have Good relationship Best friends
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My biggest strength is that I do not fear strength in others, I celebrate it.

Biggest strength Fear Others
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You cannot change who you are, and so your values need to be speaking to the person which you are.

Change Values Speaking Person
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I learned the importance of the detail… You need to be able to do the work nobody else wants to do.

Learned You need Do Work
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Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.

Trends Forever Around Standstill
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It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth.

Just Disposable income People Feel good
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I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.

Master Time Ironic Watch business
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If everyone can be as good as Madiba or Mother Theresa it could work. But people are not that nice. People act in their self interest.

Everyone Good People Nice
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If you make a mistake as an employee, admit it to your superior, because then you own the problem together.

Mistake Employee Superior Problem together
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If you are unemployed, get yourself an office. Why? So that you can get up in the morning and have a purpose to shower.
Unemployed Get Office Morning
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Choose competent people, place them in key positions, and trust their judgement implicitly.

Choose Competent people Place Positions
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You can’t do everything yourself, you have to employ competent people. It is a trick to recognize good people.

Everything yourself Employ competent People
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You have to interact with people. You can’t sit behind a computer and think you can learn something about life. Interact with people, so that you can get a feeling for the right people.

Interact People Computer Learn
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Success requires innovation, hard work, dedication and a bit of luck.

Success Innovation Hard work Dedication
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Approach every challenge as an opportunity because a negative person has never really created anything.

Approach Challenge Opportunity Negative person
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It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.

Africa Developing Future Natural
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Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Campaign Component Diamonds History
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We all need to become more customer-focused and recognize the power of marketing to sell more diamonds.

Become Diamonds Marketing More
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The diamond business has always been secretive.
Always Been Business Diamond
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Any father likes his son to take over from him if possible.

Any Father Him His
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The Kimberley Process is not a perfect construct, and it is necessary now to re-double efforts to address its remaining shortcomings and strengthen its provisions.

Address Construct Efforts Necessary
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We're seeing diamonds coming back into favor.
Back Coming Diamonds Favor
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I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run.

Affluent Africa Am Bit
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I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there.

African Am AsFarAs Children
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I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.
Anything Artist Like Never
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May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?

African Could Countries Donation
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It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.

End Got Guy Hit
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The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.

Army Good Life Me
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One doesn't necessarily have a mission.

Mission Necessarily
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Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

Deep Diamonds Except Fill
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America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.
America Business BusinessLeaders Country
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I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on.

Africa Amount Coming Continent
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One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.

Diamond Different Likes Maximum
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You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.

Cents Diamond Dollars Exactly
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Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.
Africa Businesses Certainty Clearly
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For a group to be great, both good governance and excellent execution are required. It’s not one or the other.”

Group Great Good governance Excellent
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