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That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.

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At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

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Mostly, we are good when it makes sense. A good society is one that makes sense of being good.

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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

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She returned his gaze, struck by the sense of her own transformation, and overwhelmed by the beauty which a lifetime havit had taught her to ignore.

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Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.

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I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of religion is the certainty of its own truth. And since there are 6,000 religions currently on the face of the earth, they can't all be right. And only the secular spirit can guarantee those freedoms and it's the secular spirit that they contest.

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Born: June 21, 1948 (age 77)
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