== True Heroes ==
-I especially admire these people of our times for how they inspired us to make the world a better place:
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* Gandhi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi
- "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
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"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
* Nelson Mandela
+ "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
+
"I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless
and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining
years of my life in your hands."
- "A traveller through our country would stop at a village, and he didn't have to ask for food or for
+ "A traveler through our country would stop at a village, and he didn't have to ask for food or for
water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu but
- Ubuntu has various aspects.
+ Ubuntu has various aspects."
* Mother Teresa of Calcutta - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa
"Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time."
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-And this guy lived in the distant past, but his thought strikes me as
-more modern than most of us:
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* Socrates - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
+ (pretty modern mindset, eh?)
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
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