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#1

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#2

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: bravery, courage, fear

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#3

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: education, goodness, intelligence, kindness, scholarship

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#4

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: freedom, liberty

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#5

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: personal-growth, self-discovery

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#6

“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: leaders

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#7

“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: prison

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#8

“One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: negotiating-change

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#9

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#10

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
― Nelson Mandela

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#11

“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

tags: argument, trolls

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#12

“I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: argument, correct, debate, knowledge, pretend, right, speech, winning

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#13

“a dream without a plan is just a wish”
― Katherine Paterson, The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children

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