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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Actions Conduct Man Mean
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Dictator Enemy Freedom Law
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Alliance Close Despot Free
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Been Else Matters Nothing
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Anxiety Avoid Beware Lest
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Accompanied Action Empty Speech
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Excessive Free Good Security
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Believe Best Everything Necessarily
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Advantage Against Democracy Despot
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Forgiveness Future Without
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But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Coming God Know Next
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Appreciate Elephant Foot Injustice
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Africa Bible Closed Eyes
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Humanity Need Nice Rediscover
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Allow Vaccum Nature Default
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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Abundant Africa Cheap Favor
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Choose Family Gift God
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A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Because Others Recognizes Person
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

God Heaven Quite Sinners
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

Attribute Young Biological Birth
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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Abhor Fighting Show World
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Bound Human Humanity Together
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

Benefit Black Elite Empowerment
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

Across Africa Appeal Countries
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Capacity Children Expose Extraordinary
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God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Compassion Dream Family God
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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Confined Conflict God Great
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God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Children Christian Different Faiths
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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Bottom Society Country Split
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Eternal Freedom Price Vigilance
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God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

Become Children God Patient
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The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
Deliver Quite Take Universe
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I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Acknowledging After Die Felt
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Humankind Laureate Nobel Obligation
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Being Certainly Prayers Fact
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

Popular Prefer Think Unpopular
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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

Fact Many People Quite
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Being Darkness Despite Hope
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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Wish Shut Could
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Bow Committed Europe Head
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Agree Doing Everything May
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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

Communist Damn Generation Member
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Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Happy Having Her Keep
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When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

Common Had Know Name
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Because Breaking Destroying Different
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Africa Blessing Like Man
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If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Enemies Friends Peace Talk
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

About Another Beginning Book
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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Confidence Considerable Courage Down
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Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Education Opportunity Not Problem
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