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“The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the common life.”
Source : James Luther Adams (1976). “On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society”, Beacon Press (MA)
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“Explosions are not comfortable.”
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“If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.”
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“No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.”
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“There's no solutions to prevent corruption because it's the same thing as putting soldiers in an occupation in a foreign territory - there's too much that's gonna go wrong. There's too much human behavior that's going to get in the way. So you're gonna have to start thinking about it in a different direction, and the different direction is: what is wrong with society?”
Source : "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 
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“I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.”
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“We are so much more powerful and important than we realize. In each moment that we connect with another, we have the opportunity to etch a memory into their heart.”
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“So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.”
