What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONSuch lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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