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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.

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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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