Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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