Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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