"My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career."

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Helen Suzman

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“[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.”
“Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.”
“In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if youre not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.”
“That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.
“We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.”
“The soul started at the knee-cap and ended at the navel.”
“Possible things aren't worth much, it's those crazy impossible things that keep us passionate and alive.”
“The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he took more pleasure, aside possibly evasion of the sumptuary laws. Cicero liked to believe himself wealthy. He prided himself on his books. He needed no further reason to dislike Cleopatra: intelligent women who had better libraries than he did offended him on three counts.”

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