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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat meaning and purpose are the life of life.

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Purpose
Life
Heartbeat
Breath
Breaths
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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.
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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.
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Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.
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Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.
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If I diminish you, I diminish myself
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If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
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You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
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When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
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I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.
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God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.
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We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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