Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONWhen the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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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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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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