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the phenomenon of revelation is real, yet the church is made up entirely of human beings, who in their imperfect ways are trying to respond to the divine with which they have been touched. Both things can be true at once. This leaves room ...more
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Yuval Noah Harari
“To function, a democracy needs to meet two conditions: it needs to enable a free public conversation on key issues, and it needs to maintain a minimum of social order and institutional trust.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Mel Robbins
“Friendships come and go. You can feel close and then you can feel distant. And none of this is personal. It’s proximity and timing.”
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Yuval Noah Harari
“What turns someone into a populist is claiming that they alone represent the people and that anyone who disagrees with them—whether state bureaucrats, minority groups, or even the majority of voters—either suffers from false consciousness or isn’t really part of the people.[”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari
“Truth, then, isn’t a one-to-one representation of reality. Rather, truth is something that brings our attention to certain aspects of reality while inevitably ignoring other aspects. No account of reality is 100 percent accurate, but some accounts are nevertheless more truthful than others.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari
“How can you tell, then, whether someone is part of the people or not? Easy. If they support the leader, they are part of the people. This, according to the German political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller, is the defining feature of populism.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

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