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.
ALAN PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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