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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
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely – to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
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Christian Land Name
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism–the idolatry of the 20th century.
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Century Form Tribalism
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
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
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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Ghetto Police Racism
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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
Truth is fine. Absolutely.
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Absolute Fine Truth
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
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
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.
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People Sight White
Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is.
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Color Looks President

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