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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.
Alan Paton
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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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Alan Patton
Alan Stewart Paton
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. 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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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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. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... 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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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