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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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Care Combination Commitment Knowledge Love Respect Responsiblity Trust
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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Country Institution Library Public
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Class Education Knowledge Money
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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Death Life Moments Reality Time
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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Deep Imagination Inspirational
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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Beyond Imagination Possible Reality Vision
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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Destroy Existence Human Nature People Power Recognize See
To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Commitment Investment Love Time
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Bond Love Relationship Romantic Task
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Book Ideas Life Transformation
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Oppression Privilege Rage
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Action Difficult Fall Love Responsiblity
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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Bond Commitment Couple Maintain Pain Relationship Response
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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Creature Earth Fear Inspirational People Surround
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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Against Choice Choose Fear Love Separate
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Act Feminism Racism Silence

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