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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

About Always Am Anxious
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Done Good Remind Reproach
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

Aggressive Always Being Help
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

Court Only Superstitious Tennis
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I'm always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis.

Always Basis Change Listen
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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.

Any Heroes Idols Nothing
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

About Am Been Comfortable
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

Cure Earth You
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I can't go on. I'll go on

Go
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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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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Been Else Matters Nothing
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Accompanied Action Empty Speech
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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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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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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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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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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Bound Human Humanity Together
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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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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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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 wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Wish Shut Could
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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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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Another Begins Constant Each
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

African Case Church Community
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Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Amazing Diversity God Image
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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

America Common Democratic Faith
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Compassion Truths Goodness Live
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If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Achieve Also Created Future
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When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

Boy Congo Cyprus Dinner
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The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Being Between Call Church
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