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Your 'thoughts' should be about steps to take to stop this carnage. Your 'prayers' should be for forgiveness if you do nothing -- again.

— Chris Murphy

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My truth hierarchy: (1) health care is a human right (2) climate change is an existential threat (3) the Yankees suck.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

They have fundamentally different problems than other people.

We have a moral obligation to act and not accept that this [gun violence] is inevitable.

You have entire communities whose biologies are being changed by gun violence.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

Plato

To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

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