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    He is the founding father whose values continue to shape the nation. "It’s the idea of Nelson Mandela that remains the glue that binds South Africa together" said Mondli Makhanya, editor in chief of The Sunday Times. Full Article at The New York Times
    It’s the idea of Nelson Mandela that remains the glue that binds South Africa together
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Fading From Scene, Mandela Still Looms Large
  1. as well as anyone can expect of someone who is 91 years old.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  2. They behave like young lovers ... They hold hands.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  3. He was and still is an obsessive record keeper
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  4. I find myself trying to amuse him, and I feel joyous when he breaks out in laughter.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  5. The older he grows, the more fragile he becomes, the closer the inevitable becomes, we all fear that moment. There’s the love of the man, but there’s also the question: Who will bind us?
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  6. He can reminisce at great length about things that happened years and years ago ... But you know what old age is like. Short-term memory starts to malfunction and you have bad days.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  7. One of the amazing, uncanny things was his memory ... It was like he was watching a movie of his life and then narrating it. He would do voices of his father, of his teachers, of his prison guard.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  8. The oldest record we have in that collection are his Methodist Church membership cards, the earliest one dated 1929. So he was 11 years old then.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago
  9. There’s a quietness about him
    SOURCE: The New York Times 3 weeks ago

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