Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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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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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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