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"She hoped that her baby was happy and would be waiting for her when she herself left Botswana and went to heaven. Would Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni get round to naming a wedding date before then? She hoped so, although he certainly seemed to be taking his time. Perhaps they could get married in heaven, if he left it too late. That would certainly be cheaper."
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"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."
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"Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us."
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"Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning."
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"I don't think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope."
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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"What a thrilling future for those of us who know that some day we will populate the kingdom of God."
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"There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well."
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"Even if the circumstances around you are like darkness, believe that God will give you light."
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"There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled."
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"This should be the motto of every follower of Jesus Christ. Never stop praying no matter now dark and hopeless it may seem."
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"The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world."
Society
"That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience."
Life
"It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin."
Life
"The world was a vale of tears-it always had been."
Philosophy
"And the memory made her humble, for we should not forget what it is to be young and to have ideas and attitudes that may later seem so fanciful."
Reflection
"Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so."
Literature
"Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unlike these people were modern politicians, who thought only of power and tricks."
Sacrifice
"In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in his pride and because narcissism was no longer considered a vice. That was what the whole cult of celebrity was about, she thought; and we fAated these people and fed their vanity."
Society
"International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky."
Society
"We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on."
Ethics
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