To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
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Language is, then, positively a distinctly human opening of and opening to the world Not just a distinguishable or instrumental but a constitutive faculty.Raymond Williams
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
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They tried to kick in my front door and steal my car, ... The gunshots went all through the night.
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The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
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It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.
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