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Nelson Mandela

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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.
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C. JOYBELL C. That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
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As we wave our goodbyes,
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JACK WILSON We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
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ANNET KURUI An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER There is no greater glory than to die for love.
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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af...
MICHAEL STEIN WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the mor...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Nelson Mandela understood that social transformation and economic transformation go hand in hand.
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BILL FRIST I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH Don't let any one show you the ropes to the world because usually it will be in the shape of a noose...
ANDONI GARCIA In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that in...
EUDORA WELTY Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to other...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own...
FLORENCE ELLINWOOD ALLEN Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
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ASSEGID HABTEWOLD This living light found in books and letters showing us the mind and heart of God; love written in l...
JOHN M SHEEHAN To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
TAMORA PIERCE I'm the rose within the concrete that simulates the struggle, yet the blossom reveals defeat.
THE WRITTEN FACE Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
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Just...
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STEVEN MOFFAT No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
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ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
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SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
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JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
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NEIL GAIMAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
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RICK RIORDAN Today, your hair is whitened, your steps have slowed ... The freedom that was born of your sacrifice...
LAURA BUSH Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
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TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
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NELSON MANDELA reaching the end of a long and heroic struggle.
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NELSON MANDELA I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society.
NELSON MANDELA I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the ...
NELSON MANDELA Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
NELSON MANDELA The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight. That...
NELSON MANDELA Whatever the sentence Your Worship sees fit to impose upon me for the crime for which I have been co...
NELSON MANDELA I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I w...
NELSON MANDELA Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of ...
NELSON MANDELA Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
NELSON MANDELA It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have cons...
NELSON MANDELA May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
NELSON MANDELA Then we'd get behind them and drive them up a valley. Then we'd stab a pig, it would cry, and then w...
NELSON MANDELA I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hop...
NELSON MANDELA As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
NELSON MANDELA Today we stand at the grave of one of the greatest among that generation of great freedom fighters.
NELSON MANDELA That was one of the things that worried me - to be raised to the position of a semi-god - because th...
NELSON MANDELA There is no such thing as part freedom
NELSON MANDELA The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor,...
NELSON MANDELA When I think about the past, the types of things they did, I feel angry, but then again that is my f...
NELSON MANDELA The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye co...
NELSON MANDELA True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.
NELSON MANDELA Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
NELSON MANDELA Courage is not a lack of fear, but instead is continuing to push forward in spite of it!
NELSON MANDELA I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of bei...
NELSON MANDELA As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my ...
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