Can Themba famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A few doors away was the Baptist Church, and as I walked towards it I began to think that people didn't want me to share their church. As I walked through the Baptist door I was tense, waiting for that tap on the shoulder…but instead I was given a hymn book and welcomed into the church. I sat through the service…This up and down treatment wasn't doing my nerves much good.
-- Can Themba
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An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
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Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.
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It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.
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To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.
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The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.
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While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.
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