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“To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.”

Years Has Beens Real Hard Together Games Individual Sacrifice Team Hard Work Honor Determination South London South Africa Selected Olympic Games Relays

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Sumner

“The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for honor and intellectual freedom, and longing for love and solace. Kyung-Sook Shin's characters have unforgettable voices-it's no wonder she has so many fans.”

Giving Character Fighting Voice Wonder Fans Reader Citizens Honor Intellectual Longing South Tone Silver Melancholy Korea Solace Unforgettable South Korea Intellectual Freedom

Author:Susan Straight

“Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract.”

“When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe. In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California. There's been a tremendous amount of change.”

House Cry Amount Honor Shots Threat Fortune South Privilege Heavy California Breakfast Lunch South Africa Good Fortune Nelson Zimbabwe

Author:Denzel Washington

“Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.”

Way Years Suffering Honor Prison South Sat Jail Nonviolence South Africa Nelson

Author:Coretta Scott King

“I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will honor them.”

Want Honor South Defense Japan Mutual Allies Elsewhere Korea Treaties South Korea

Author:Hillary Clinton

“In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.”

Way Stills Today School Military Duty Honor Ethics South Loyalty Traditional Upbringing Military School

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.”

Danger Honor Crosses West South East East And West

Book:King Henry IV, pt. 1-2. King Henry the fifth

Source: King Henry IV, pt. 1-2. King Henry the fifth