There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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