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Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.
Rowan Williams
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Rowan Williams
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 14
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So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
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The past is what the present is doing now.
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It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist what matters is that they show that they can kill where they please.
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Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.
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