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All roads lead to Johannesburg.

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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
Alen Peṭon
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Johannesburg

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And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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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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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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It is not forgive and forget as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but forgive and go forward, building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, 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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