"I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness."

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Source : "Country of My Skull" by Antjie Krog, Random House, (p. 270), 1998.

P. W. Botha

#Tired Quotes #Mean Quotes #Sick Quotes

“We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.”
“Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.”
“I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.”
“I don't think it's particularly useful to be going to another country and staying in a classroom and just studying in the classroom. What's important, I think, is to get immersed into the local economy.”

Source : "Robert Dolan Innovates Michigan’s MBA Program". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 13, 2009.
“To be quite honest, along with thinking and such when it comes to writing, I'm not into words like "theory." I'm a PhD dropout. No matter how many twenty-five-page papers I wrote, I never felt like I was saying much. I didn't feel like the writer of the book, whose work I was analyzing, would have been impressed. It didn't matter how much time or effort I put in.”
“Nick? Nick Hurley?" I asked, laughing. He took back his hat. "You'll be sorry to hear I don't make gross faces as much as I used to. Now I'd rather smile at girls." "I noticed" He waved his hat around as if he was trying to dry it, his green eyes sparkling at me, as full of fun and trouble as when he was in elementary school. I realxed.”
“I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.”
“Hardships make or break people.”

Source : Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

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