"I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness."

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Source : "Sen. Richard Gephardt's Speech Text". abcnews.go.com. August 16.

Dick Gephardt

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“The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.”
“Larry Kasdan is a great director.”
“As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.”
“Don't hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you'll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you'll experience the assurance of no rebirth.”
“I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.”
“And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea â€” some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wildâ€”they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.”
“The rocks will melt with the sun before tuition fees are introduced in Scotland.”
“I think it takes a very generous and tolerant non-famous partner to stick with the famous person, especially if s/he wasn't famous when they first got together. And add to it the fact that the Web makes it extremely easy to meet admirers... well, there are a lot of temptations to be ignored, or else embraced.”

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