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“I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.”

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I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

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All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of…

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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

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Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has…

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The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

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One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire…

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Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

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We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our…

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A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

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We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

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The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

Jeffrey R. Holland

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,…

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When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you…

Olivia Newton-John

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…

Seneca the Younger

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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

Albert Einstein

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A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

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We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines…

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A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which…

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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

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