Quote #34

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

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  3. We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.
  4. The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
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  8. The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

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