There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
ALAN PATONAnd man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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