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You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.

Cornel West

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
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
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
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Assumption Hidden Interrogate
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
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
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
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
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Entangled Falling Love
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We’re going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.
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Smiley Water Way
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself

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