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“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
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“If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.”
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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
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“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
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