Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
ALAN PATONTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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