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Helen Suzman Quotes: The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.
         

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.


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All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.



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It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.



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