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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

Alan Paton

I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Build Create Future Generate Mistake Past Reconciliation
And money is not something to go mad about …
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Mad Money Something
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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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
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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Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Already Being Day One People Rebuilt Tribe
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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Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Men Work
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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As Development Exploit Name Such True
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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Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Beauty Country Field Hedge Talk Time

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

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