It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONThere is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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