Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONI have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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