Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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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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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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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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