Gold Quote by Desmond Tutu

“People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.”

Desmond Tutu

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I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who…

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“child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.”

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Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold.

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