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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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