"Having a Facebook and Twitter profile allows me to keep more in touch with people, particularly young South Africans and those who are part of the online community. I was amazed that anyone might be interested in what I do and who I meet. Now I know what people will be interested in."

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Source : Source: memeburn.com

Helen Zille

#People Quotes #Community Quotes #Might Quotes

“I am the history of the rejection of who I am”
“Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.”

Source : "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.
“Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”
“So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.”
“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.”
“When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.”

Source : "Dwyane Wade's Off-Court Highlight Reel" by Will Welch, www.gq.com. October 27, 2011.
“I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.”
“Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.”

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