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To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.
Jean Vanier
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Jean Vanier
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: May 7
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We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.
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Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.
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There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.
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