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Bryce Courtenay, AM (14 August 1933 – 22 November 2012) was a South African/Australian advertising director and novelist. He is one of Australia's best-selling authors, notable for his book The Power of One.

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Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

Brother, Compassion, Love, Man, Men, People

Never take advice from a donkey.

Advice, Donkey, Power Of One, Take

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Dare, Genius, Walk, Way, Ways, Wisdom

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

Challenges, Gift, Intelligence, Practice, Shadow, Toward

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Allowed, Destroyed, Flame, Flames, Independence, Long

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

Believe, I Believe, Lies, Lying, Tell

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Head, Holding, Motivational, Pride, Self Confidence

Always listen to yourself. . . It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

Conventions, Follow, Listen, Power Of One, Self Determination, Wrong

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

Book, Books, Christmas, Presents, Write, Writing

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

Flower, Night, Pestering, Stupid

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

Boxing, Mouth, Mouths, Occasionally, Sometimes

Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.

Beats, Big, Bigs, Plan, Plans, Small

Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.

Determination, Disappointment, Exceptionally, Pursue, Saying, Tasks

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

Brain, Ignorance, Incubate, Racism, Sickness

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

Children, Gift, Give, Giving, Love

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

Die, Exciting, Mind, Possibly, Way

Always listen to yourself. It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you will grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.

Fulfilling, Listen, Matter, Stronger, Taken, Wrong

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

Acuity, Brain, Given, Hard, Intellectual, People

I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.

Drink, Hand, Hands, Water, Wish

You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.

Feeding, Hate, Natural, Past

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