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The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Delusional Marginal People Person
Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us.
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Thinking Warrior Winning
Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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Country People War
Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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Country Law Men President Strong
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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Blue Fighting Nuts
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Country Election Fault History
Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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Fields Hands Running
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Commitment Order Sick

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