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Bob Harris1 quote
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. — Bob Harris · 2003Desmond Tutu1 quote
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less than who they are. — Desmond Tutu · 2000Gustave Flaubert1 quote
Naturalness and ease of manner-a product of sophistication which the gullible interpret as a sign of instant affinity. — Gustave Flaubert · 1869Muhammad Ali1 quote
Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. — Muhammad Ali · 1963William Shakespeare1 quote
I am not in the roll of common men. — William Shakespeare · 1597Zhuang Zhou1 quote
When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. — Zhuang Zhou · 221 BC