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I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it's always been that way.
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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
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Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.
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Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
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But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.


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War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.


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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.


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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.


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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
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