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• If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective,…
• Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.
• Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.
• All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
• If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
• If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
• We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
• Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
• The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.
• Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
• Israel today is bad for the Jews,
• It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck…

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