Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATONThen some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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