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Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

Os Guinness

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Os Guinness
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 30
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China
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God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
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Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.
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Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and judge themselves. In the end they would lose even the capacity to despise themselves. Thus, because of the 'death of God', they would confuse heaven with happiness, and happiness with health.
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We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.
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