I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people. - Desmond Tutu

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When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish. . . Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

Desmond Tutu

I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.

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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

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Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

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True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

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When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish. . . Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

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Emma Thompson

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The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.

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If you go against someone, you say, you can't vote for these Democrats, they don't have good values, they're not good people, they're weak, they're spineless, they're don't love America, they're giving aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein, that's the kind of thing I think is bad for America, because it stops the voters from thinking. And any time you stop thinking in a free society you get in trouble.

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