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Wilbur Smith Quotes

The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
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Birth: January 9, 1933

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Government Mistake People Black Lose

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

Eye You Look Say Him Something

For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.

Focus World Think Universe Doing

I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington in Seattle and become an engineer. But by the time I was seventeen, I was ready to leave home, a decision my parents agreed to support if I could obtain a scholarship. MIT did not grant me one, but the University of Chicago did.

Robert Lucas, Jr.

Good Home Science Time Decision Me

I'm a massive fan of the 'Bourne' franchise, and I think Damon's brilliant in it, and I love the films. I'm really into it.

Love Think Brilliant Fan I Think

I've got to be confident in all the pitches I'm throwing so I can throw anything in any count.

Confident I Can Anything Count Throw

I liked football a lot, too, but basketball clearly is my first love.

Love Football Basketball First Liked

As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.

Life Time You Time Goes By Weed Out

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Dance Ring Secret Round Middle

The people that you have around you are your biggest influence.

People Influence You Your Around

I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.

Me Free Think Experiences Sure Made

Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.

Lord Mountbatten

I Am Feeling First Here Grand Very

The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.

More Size Lines Charge Between Mass

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