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"When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer."
"The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger."
"Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes"
"People are strange when you're a stranger."
"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys."
"The Universe is stranger than we imagine!"
"Stranger in a strange country."
"Think of strangers as friends you not met yet."
"Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good."
"Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise."
"I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog."
"My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too."
"I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!"
"We meet no Stranger, but Ourself."
"... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this."
"Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions."
"Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you."
"The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger."
"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"
"Admiration and familiarity are strangers."
