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“The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.”

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If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to…

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The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

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Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

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Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that…

Why?' is the prophetic question.

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Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

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More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice. Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision. And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith. You…

Our choice is between cynicism and hope.

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Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to…

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Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

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To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say…

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“Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal.”

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...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

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As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But…

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I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid…

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I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

Jean-Claude Juncker

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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I…

We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.

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I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that…

Immortal Technique

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I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time when the spirit of the community, the non-ideological blend of the emotional and rational and the resistance to categories and forms will emerge through the forces of anti-nationalism to provide us with a new kind of…

Martin A. Siegel

A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those…

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No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is…

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I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent…

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... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.

Saunders Mac Lane

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