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• One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
• When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because…
• When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something…
• People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when…
• I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more…
• A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
• The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
• Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,…
• What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or…
• Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
• The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you…
• Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing…

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