“I like friends who have independent minds because they tend …”

“I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.”

— Nelson Mandela

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Title: Wikiquote: Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela on friendship, From his unpublished autobiographical manuscript written in 1975. Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation

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Mandela, Nelson. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Nelson Mandela. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela

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