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Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Are science and Christianity friends? The answer to that is an emphatic yes, for any true science will be perfectly compatible with the truths we know by God's revelation. But this science is not naturalistic, while modern science usually is.
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Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.
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In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.
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The self is the modern substitute for the soul.
