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How simple it seems now. We thought the Sermon on the Mount was a nice allegory and nothing more. What we didn't understand until we got to be a little older was that it was the whole answer, the whole truth.

— Mario Cuomo Address at Iona College (1984)

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We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things.

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