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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.

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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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