This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATONBut 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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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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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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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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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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