These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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Expect the end of the world.
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Like the water
of a deep stream, love is always too much.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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