We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.
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What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
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