"It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa â€“ it is your answers."

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Source : "Helen Suzman, Relentless Challenger of Apartheid System, Is Dead at 91" by John F. Burns, Alan Cowell, www.nytimes.com. January 1, 2009.

Helen Suzman

#Answers Quotes #South Africa Quotes

“When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.”
“A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.”
“As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.”
“I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.”
“Emirates Stadium should be named after Arsene Wenger”
“I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.”
“To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of it that suddenly opens up. Where art has value it shows things that few have seen. It's conquering, not pacifying.”
“To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”

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