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Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but yo

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change peoples ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time. – 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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And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that its third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, its much more polite. – Miriam Makeba

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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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If youre unhappy, you should change what youre doing. – Marc Andreessen

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As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. Im still not comfortable, but thats why I change and adapt the way I look. – Marilyn Manson

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Logic will never change emotion or perception. – Edward de Bono

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