"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.“

-Nelson Mandela

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"Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all."

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"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

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"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."

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"I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them."

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"Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think."

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"I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife."

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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."

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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."

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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."

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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."

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