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Originally Posted by infinite monkey
It's often been attributed to Mandela. In fact, the first time I read it was in Reader's Digest and I cut it out and hung it on my fridge and it was attributed to Mandela even there. So, you may have heard about hearing it but you didn't actually hear it.  |
The hell I didn't.
Seriously, in abut 2002 or so when I was at the ANU, the uni gave him an honorary doctorate. I got a ticket to hear him speak. He used a line almost exactly as I reported here.
Now I grant you he may well have been quoting some other source, but nevertheless, he said it.
And afterwards I hung around at the reception and as he left he made eye contact with me. My friend even shook his hand.