Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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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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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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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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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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