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"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?"
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
Forgiveness
"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."
Power
"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?"
Man
"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."
Society
"If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing."
Concern
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
Love
"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."
Nation
"There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man."
Life
"God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?"
God
"Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
Wisdom
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