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As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

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Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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Belief Difference Strong
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
It’s true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.
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Littles Magazine Reading
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
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
There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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Differences Fundamentals Organization
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
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
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
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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Differences Successful Year

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