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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Nature is not sweet.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that God is very real.
- Commandment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.
- Mixed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is a mixed blessing.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I experience God as the power of love.
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- Nov 07, 2020