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Al Gore was really the second environmentally-attuned presidential candidate we’d ever had (preceded only by California governor Jerry Brown), but despite the fact that Gore was talking about ecology and the human spirit in the mid 1980s, he wasn’t viewed until recently as an earthy guy. But some twenty years ago, Gore was a keynote…

“Your assertion of nothingness at the end of our mortal lives is no more and no less verifiable than my assertion of somethingness. And yet I do not accuse you of lying–to yourself or to others. I respect your existential choice to face death alone, as a purely material event, leading nowhere but physical decomposition.…

“Human life is a journey whose end is not in sight. Searching, longing and questioning is in our DNA. Who we are and what we will become is determined by the questions that animate us, and by those we refuse to ask. Your questions are your quest. As you ask, so shall you be.” —Sam…

Here’s a lovely old song from World War I that articulates timely sentiments for me: “I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier,I brought him up to be my pride and joy.Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder,To shoot some other mother’s darling boy? “Let nations arbitrate their future trouble,It’s time to…
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