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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
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Buying Pleasure Selling
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely – to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
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Christian Land Name
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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Hey People Thinking
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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Idea Men Wise
Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
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Book Miss People
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
I’m actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.
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Philosophy Understanding Way
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
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Democracy Majority Rights
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul

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