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A man who really believes everything he says will go a long way, which goes a long way to explain, why so few of us go a long way.

most politicians are blind to blame and blame to blind

Don’t judge a book, by looking at its colour.

It may be true that charity begins at home. But often it goes no further. Unlike many other things, for instance bigotry and violence, which often go a great deal further.

Concerning war, even more important than examining the conscience of the conscientious objector, is examining the conscience of the conscientious supporter.

The financial crisis and Covid 19, 20, 21, 22 and counting became the mother and father of the need to deal with global warming and climate change. For the failure to prevent repetition, or to rectify, will further damage, destroy, incinerate or drown our wealth and health.

the danger of defining is confining

we all exist at the end of time at the beginning of time and at the same time

When faith and doubt go together in religion, isn’t there really an absence of or defective faith in those with no doubt?

Holocene Anthropocene Final Scene Why? Because we keep on adding unnatural distasters to natural disasters.

God bless even those seeking to harm or destroy us. In fact, God bless in particular those seeking to harm or destroy us.

As no one is born A hater of people, It is never wholly Out of the question For hatred made To become Hatred unmade.

history and himpathy are frequently a story of bias reducing or excluding herstory and herpathy

for many of us it is difficult to image the creation of the material world by an immaterial god

lack of money is just as much the root of evil as love of money

For many of us, when thinking about the hereafter, it is neither here nor there whether or not there’s a there after here.

We are part of nature, not apart from nature.

there is never a shortage of men trying to inflate their phallacies with fallacies

If a possibility is something achievable, for otherwise it wouldn’t be a possibility, And if it is true that our world is neither the best nor the worst of all possible worlds, Then it may indeed eventually become the best of all possible worlds.

we become the product of the products we produce

The notion that time only began when space began, and that space only began with the biggest of bangs, will become redundant if scientists ever discover, that neither space nor time ever began at a beginning that never began.

Thanks to mordern media, we can see the world close up. And guess what, it is full of different sorts of people who are more or less the same.

The world is finite, but infused with infinity, while man is mortal, but enthused by immortality.

we accumulate by giving

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