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There is the idealism behind justice, equality, and the rule of law, and then there is the practical and unavoidable reality.
The disparity between American idealism and American realities is a gap wide enough to sail the USS Carl Vinson through.
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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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