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“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

tags: 2016-presidential-race, accountability, beloved-community, civic-duty, civic-responsibility, civic-virtue, civil-disobedience, communities, democracy, democratic-process, discourse-on-a-better-world, discourse-on-democracy, discourse-on-freedom, editorials-on-democracy, emigrants, gun-laws, gun-violence, human-rights, immigration, leadership, leadership-characteristics, leadership-theory, national-history-day, peace, peace-on-earth, police-culture, police-reform, political-art, political-chaos, political-commentary, political-ethics, political-philosophy, political-poets, political-posters, political-rights, political-theory, postered-poetics-by-aberjhani, practicing-democracy, presidential-election, right-to-vote, sustainable-living, teaching-democracy, voting

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“Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused.”
― John Locke, The Empiricists: Locke: Concerning Human Understanding; Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge & 3 Dialogues; Hume: Concerning Human Understanding & Concerning Natural Religion

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“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
― Peg Bracken

tags: christmas

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“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: care, christ, christianity, christmas, clothe, enemies, feed, forgive, golden-rule, guilty, hungry, ill, inspirational, jesus, life, love, motivational, naked, service, unwanted, welcome

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“What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.”
― Buddha

tags: hate, haters, hatred, life

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