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Quote by Miriam Makeba
Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if yo

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you wont get run over. – Miriam Makeba

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Its a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I dont see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. – Miriam Makeba

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Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. – Miriam Makeba

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Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I cant do anything about that. – Miriam Makeba

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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12. – Alexander McQueen

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In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. – Francis Schaeffer

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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. – Will Durant

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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. – Albert Einstein

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