There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATONBut when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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 Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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