"Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checkedâ€”not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life."

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Source : "South Africa: beyond a one-party state" by Mark Gevisser, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2009.

Mark Gevisser

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“I've been wrestling for 15 years so my body hurts.”

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“A chess tournament disguised as a circus.”

Source : 1964 Of US political conventions. In the National Observer. Quoted in Edwin A Roberts Jr Elections 1964 (1964).
“If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.”
“If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.”
“I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.”
“The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.”
“Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.”
“I really don't have a favorite team.”

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