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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mahatma Gandhi
God
Sometimes
Try
Those
He
Wishes
Bless
Does
Whom
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma Gandhi
God
Witness
Passion
Mind
Religious
Composed
Purely
Purified
Only
Taken
Vow
Fit
Cannot
Which
Act
Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi
War
Morality
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi
Welcome
East
Would
Brute
Brute Force
Force
West
Provided
Heartily
Union
Based
I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
Mahatma Gandhi
Time
Thoughts
Wife
Took
Objection
Only
Had
Shared
Until
Vow
She
Making
Celibacy
Then
Her
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom
World
Will
Herself
Would
Would-Be
India
Menace
Give
Means
Violent
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mahatma Gandhi
Good
Worth
Name
Principle
Wholly
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mahatma Gandhi
Good
Liable
Changed
Temporary
Pursued
Policy
Got
Holds
While
Apostolic
Zeal
Creed
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi
History
Man
Men
Point
Known
Been
Up
Die
Violent
So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
People
Will
Long
Country
Clearly
Still
Role
Play
Here
And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Racism
States
Oath
One Thing
Insisted
Take
Involved
Operate
Policies
Ideologies
Discrimination
Where
Different
Proceed
Which
Manifesto
Them
Should
Agreed
Thing
Reject
Basis
I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
You
Will
Everyone
Background
See
Look
Talk
Policy
Always
Dialogue
Nonviolence
Been
Believed
I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Kindness
Wonderful
He
Support
Call
Always
Proud
Source
Friend
Dr
In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Hope
Day
You
Every Day
Year
Nothing
Live
Every
Despair
Plight
Backyard
Has-Been
Park
Fact
Terrible
Been
Done
After
Help
My party is committed to a federation.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Party
Federation
Committed
South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
You
Women
Men
Blessed
South Africa
Give
Open
Like
South
Women And Men
Hearts
Hands
Africa
Little
Who
The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
You
Will
National
Before
System
Only
Leaders
Performance
Know
Also
Provincial
Up
Candidates
After
Deployed
Elections
Who
Monitoring
Set
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Politics
You
Closed
Doors
Secret
Wrong
Town
Executive
Make
Affect
Metro
Closed Doors
Committee
Behind
Which
Decisions
Cape
Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
People
South Africa
Believe
Self-Determination
Context
South
Africa
Region
Personally
Based
Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
South Africa
Charge
Well
Surely
Am
South
Africa
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Zedong
Capitalism
Tendency
Toward
Well-To-Do
Serious
Among
Peasants
I voted for you during your last election.
Mao Zedong
You
Election
Voted
Your
Last
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
Mao Zedong
People
Paper
States
Scare
Atom
Atom Bomb
Fact
Looks
Terrible
Tiger
In Fact
Which
Use
United
Bomb
United States
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret Thatcher
Work
Woman
Job
Walks
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Ability
Stick
Got
Leaves
Off
Get
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret Thatcher
You
Sometimes
Tell
Lies
Deliberate
Evasive
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Margaret Thatcher
Politics
Me
Sex
Men
One Of The Things
Taught
Being
Reasonable
Things
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