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First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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Allow Heroically Live Meaningful Rise Triumphant
And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Confront Discover Empower Themselves Worst
Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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Amazing Array Faces Life Possess Profound Sad
Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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Accustomed Attempt Misunderstood News Often Practise
If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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Birthday Cake Cognac Icing Kindness Life Smeared
Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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Assembling Coalition Delivering History Legislation Passing Speechless
On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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Battered Calm Eye Faith Hot Nation Prayer Rage
Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
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Angel Behold Bliss Lover Peace Place
Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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Angel Blossomed Hope Humanity Joy Love
Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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Asleep Babe Dream Embracing Light Lips Prayer Saw Syllables
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
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Intention Philosophical Seductive
What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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Civilized Constituted Disease Form Pain People Poverty Struggle
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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Cliff Color Heart Long Searching Shaping
The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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Country Fact Government House State Symbolism White
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Birth Delivery Gestation Insignificant Light Period Poet Prayer True
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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Book Dream Enter Page Past Poetry Reader Transform World

First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

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