"When we can sit in the face..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.
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“When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.”
“Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.”
“There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.”
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“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”
“I'm not a person who likes authority. I just love the fact that it's up to me, and I go straight to the audience.”
“Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.”