To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid. — Nelson Mandela

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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison

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A life in association, not a life independent, is the democratic ideal. ― Terry Tempest Williams

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A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort.

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ― Albert Camus

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. _ Dale Carnegie

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Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa

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I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. ― Helen Keller

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