In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
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The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
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If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.