Long Walk to Freedom

tighten the screws

learn by trial and error

kith and kin.

, unlike politics, caution is not usually a virtue.

Circumcision is a trial of bravery and stoicism; no anesthetic is used; a man must suffer in silence.

I was like a boy who worships a local soccer hero and is not interested in a national soccer star with whom he has no connection.

He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind

always remember the regent’s axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd

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