Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
ALAN PATONTherefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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And 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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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