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The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

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Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can to engage my students with each other, with me, and with the subject. And the subject, I think, always has to take prominence.
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