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The A.N.C. was established in 1912 and the S.A. Communist Party in 1921, and so there has been an overlapping of membership all along the line.


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As we wave our goodbyes,
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Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
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OLIVER HERFORD Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
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OLIVER HERFORD A man is known by the silence he keeps.
OLIVER HERFORD What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
OLIVER HERFORD Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
OLIVER HERFORD Only the young die good.
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OLIVER CROMWELL Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
OLIVER CROMWELL No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
OLIVER CROMWELL We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
OLIVER CROMWELL Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
OLIVER CROMWELL Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
OLIVER CROMWELL God made them as stubble to our swords.
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OLIVER MARKUS If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ...
OLIVER SACKS The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to go...
JOHN OLIVER I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down...
JOHN OLIVER In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even us...
BARRET OLIVER Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which...
BARRET OLIVER I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from not...
BARRET OLIVER It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never ...
BARNEY OLIVER In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic t...
BARNEY OLIVER Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to t...
BARNEY OLIVER No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
BARNEY OLIVER