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Re:Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966) by beckingz on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:31AM (#23811580)
That is a powerful quote.

Apparently the author (Marianne Williamson, not Mandela) was flabbergasted and honored that her words were being attributed to Mandela. [0]

0 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/our-deepest-fear/

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Re:Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966) by ChrisMarshallNY on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:34AM (#23811611)
Ah. Thanks for the correction. I will note that.

Yeah, that's why I said "I think."

LOTS of misattributed quotes out there.

My fave is "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Abraham Lincoln.

UPDATED TO ADD:

I preface my Medium posts[0] with quotes, and those, I tend to research a bit more exhaustively. One of my entries[1] is prefaced by the quote "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

The quote is by John A. Shedd[2], but is often attributed to Grace Hopper, who used it one of her speeches.

[0] https://medium.com/chrismarshallny

[1] https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/thats-not-what-ships-are-...

[2] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Augustus_Shedd

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Re:Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966) by essayist on Monday July 13, 2020 @02:15PM (#23823782)
My mother's favorite actor, singing a song whose German lyrics include "a ship isn't designed just to lie in the harbor; it needs to sail out to the open sea", and other more scandalous metaphors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzX-uZUtI4

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Re:Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966) by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday July 13, 2020 @02:57PM (#23824275)
Boy, he had great teeth!
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