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Things we learned from The Power of One!


1. Spinning a rope around with a rock in it and throwing it at a chicken will instantly kill a chicken.

2. People who sin will turn black, that's why the black people get treated so poorly.

3. When you knock a guy out, don't grab the gun that's a foot away from him, just walk away.

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4. If you are related to PK or know him, one of three things will happen: (1) you will get in trouble with the law; (2) you will be beaten up; or (3) you will be killed. The only exception to this is if you flee the country the first chance you get.

5. PK has an Indiana Jones outfit he likes to wear when he has some serious thinking to do.

6. If you don't have a date to the senior ball, your dad will set you up with a guy who is just as prejudiced as he is.

7. Your classmates will laugh at you if you get stabbed in the butt with a miniature flag post.

8. Maria's dad can't ruin PK's life. He's been accepted to Oxford.

9. You can get expelled for attending boxing matches.

10. Maria is extraordinary.

11. If it never rains, then life is not perfect.

12. False hope is better than no hope at all.

13. If you have an 8-punch combination, the heavyweight champion of the country will compliment you on it.

14. To be. I am. You are. He is.

15. Justice is only relative as to who is in charge.

16. How long they stay in charge is relative to how they dispense that justice.

17. History takes too long, but it is never kind to those who try to rush it.

18. PK's chicken was the bravest.

19. PK's chicken was his best and only friend.

20. Never take advice from a donkey.

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21. If you not nothing about a subject, its best to say nothing.

22. That is, UNLESS you know what you've read and you know what you've seen.

23. If what you've seen was with "that English boy", then you'll be forbidden from seeing him.

24. That's the price for seeing an English boy.

25. We never find out the price for dating a Jewish boy or a black.

26. Maria won't hate like her father.

27. Mother would have liked Doc.

28. A waterfall starts with only one drop of water.

29. Every question you ever have, you will find the answer in nature.

30. Maria didn't go to the Senior Ball because PK wanted to save the world.

31. Maria brought some pencils.

32. They run this way, they run that way. They are confused. They are afraid. They are cowards.

33. Have we got a boxer here.

34. Put it on its side then! Put it on its side!

35. The myth is as old as Africa.

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36. English lesson: This is a bullet. The bullet goes into the gun.

37. Loneliness birds lay stone eggs in your heart.

38. Doc was all alone in the world.

39. Always offer your guests tea, and a cactus.

40. PK's mother was not a farmer.

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41. Little beats big when little is smart, first with the head, and then with the heart.

42. PK doesn't stand for piss kop, it stands for Phillip Peter Kenneth Keith.

42. Written permission is required when one wants to date Maria.

43. Boarding school is rough if you're the only English student.

44. The PK that Doc knows is a lot more than "satisfactory".

45. What do you believe, PK?

46. There's really no need to wait until a 7-year old is awake or prepared to hear bad news. You can just point a flashlight at his bed while he's asleep and announce in a cold voice, "your mother is dead".

47. One eye works just as well as two.

48. 90 pounds is very reasonable.

49. PK's mother, God rest her, was qualified to raise PK.

50. If you allow race mixing in your gym, nothing will happen. However, if you paint on your window a depiction of a black man and white man boxing, someone will burn down your gym within a 24-hour period.

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51. The prisoners eat sh*t every day.

52. PK wants to be a boxer, not a comedian.

53. Doc talked about justice.

54. Dabula Manzi, the old medicine man, talked about courage.

55. Geel Peit talked about hope.

56. Maria just talked.

57. Justice was served in the murder of Geel Peit.

58. Teaching different tribes to clap in unison is an effective tool in eventually getting them to sing together at a concert.

59. Sometimes people wish their servants could be here without being here.

60. Toasting to Apartheid is evil.

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61. Maury is the level-headed one.

62. The myth is as old as Africa.

63. PK is clever.

64. If you wet the bed, have your nanny get you a medicine man.

65. Maury's uncle's knock sounds like Maria's knock.

66. PK can paint a bit.

67. PK was a child of Africa.

68. PK was a man for all Africa, bound to her by his spirit, bound by his dreams.

59. Jaapie was branded an idiot by all who knew him.

60. They knew him well.

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61. That outhouse probably stunk.

62. PK didn't remember telling Maria his name because he didn't tell her his name.

63. Ostrich bracelets make good presents for when you first fall in love.

64. Boarding schools allow pet chickens.

65. Going to Oxford does not equate to a brighter tomorrow.

66. The commissioner had a lovely friend.

67. The best boxing coaches are professional inmates.

68. When your opponent takes water, you go where that water goes.

69. Five years can pass before you know it.

70. Overcoming your fear of elephants makes you a man for all Africa.

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71. Gideon REALLY needed one of those tooth guard things for when he boxed.

72. The moon and the sun cooperate.

73. Seargeant Botha had an awful lot of phlegm.

74. Having a large mural in your office of your family's history will assist in a succinct explanation of why you won't give an English boy permission to date your Afrikana daughter.

75. P.K. considers himself to be a South African.

76. Actually, everyone considers themselves to be South Africans.

77. Separation of things is not coincidental.

78. Nobody wants to see their culture or sense of identity replaced by someone elses.

79. If your opponent can't hit you, they can't hurt you.

80. Ironing tobacco leaves helps to smuggle them.

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81. Purebred Afrikaner daughters of parents with dark brown hair will be freckle-faced redheads.

82. Sport and Wager in Imperial Rome is a suitable topic for a class project in exclusive boys' boarding schools.

83. Always send your daughters to all-girl boarding schools nicknamed "Fortress Virgin".

84. Bloody country's going to hell.

85. Afrikaners are funny people sometimes.

86. If you're PK, you CAN last six minutes in Hoppie Groenwald's gym.

87. Senior Balls are important too.

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