To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice. - Desmond Tutu

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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Desmond Tutu

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

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