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If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.
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Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra
You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.
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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time.
Don't waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin and inspiration will find you.
But there is one thing that is privileged to be a paradoxical sign of God, in relation to which men are able to manifest their deepest commitment -- our Neighbor. The sacrament of our Neighbor!'
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You ask me whether the Orient is up to what I imagined it to be. Yes, it is; and more than that, it extends far beyond the narrow idea I had of it. I have found, clearly delineated, everything that was hazy in my mind. Facts have taken the place of suppositions - so excellently so that it is often as though I were suddenly coming upon old forgotten dreams.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by ?a world of enemies? - ?one against all? - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.
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Men in plural? can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
Sometimes it is better to give your apple away, than to eat it yourself.
t is better to ride a donkey that carries you than a horse that throws you.
There are some who despise pride with a greater pride.
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Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail.
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