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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

— Desmond Tutu

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You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama.

I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period.

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

Hope and Suffering: Sermons and Speeches (1984)

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

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