The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATONBehind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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