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.
ALAN PATONMoney 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 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 not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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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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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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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