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Ek dink nie so nie! Hier stem ek saam met Emily Dickenson: “Words are dead when they are said, some say. I say they only begin to live that day.” Deur die loop van die jaar het ek ‘n klompie aanhalings aangeteken wat met belangrike kwessies waarmee ons daagliks gekonfronteer word, te doen het. Hier volg ‘n paar:
- “You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they don’t have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of a nation.” - Adrian Rogers
- “I did not join the struggle to be poor.” - Smuts Ngonyama: aangehaal deur Sarah Britten
- “Censure can be useful for the protection of morality, but not for restoring it.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler
- “The marvellous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.” – Ronnie Barker
- “It’s true, hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance?” – Ronald Reagan
- “A country that considers its privileges higher than its principles, soon loses both.” – Genl Dwight Eisenhower
- “For bad to come about, good people should do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
- “Through brilliant reasoning about a problem, you can create the illusion of having mastered it.” – Stanley Kubrick, Movie director
- “There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics.” – Mahatma Gandi
- “We cannot hope to solve a problem at the same level as that on which we created it.” – Albert Einstein
- “I don’t want to know what the law is; I want to know who the judge is.” – Roy M Cohn
- “I wouldn’t give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I’d give my life for the simplicity on the far side of complexity.” – Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.” – Anonymous
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