Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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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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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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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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