There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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