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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
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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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, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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