If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. - Thomas Merton

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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

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American - Author January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968

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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.Thomas Merton

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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell

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There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.Ben Hecht

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Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.Kofi Annan

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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.Thomas Merton

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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.Naomi Wolf

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You want to be somewhat cautious inasmuch as you can't use the state email for political or campaign business.Steve Bullock

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I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.Billie Eilish

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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.Thomas Merton

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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise. - Barbara Jordan

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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.Thomas Merton

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Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action.Thomas Merton

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'If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life.'Thomas Merton

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I am aware that if I do become the president, I, too, could be processed for any political wrongdoing.Michel Temer

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