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Jan Smuts

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Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, was a South African statesman, military officer and philosopher.

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Notable works: Dissertatio zoologica, enumerationem mammalium capensium continens

About Jan Smuts

Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, was a South African statesman, military officer and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and 1939 to 1948.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jan Smuts

The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes…

Appeals

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If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the…

Doe

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When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

History

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This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it;…

Deeper

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To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the…

Bible

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The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as…

Climbing

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If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the…

Equal

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History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

History

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What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead,…

Business

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...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of…

Creation

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In spite of the great advances which have been made in our knowledge, some fundamental gaps remain. Matter, life and mind still…

Arise

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Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a…

Better future

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A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

Confidence

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Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

Against war

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Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I…

Companion

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When in doubt, do the courageous things

Courage

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When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

Courage

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Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.

Holistic

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