I would take America as it is now, except I would shave 10% off the defense budget and put it into the education budget, thereby more than doubling it.
It's a start, is it not?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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