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On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.
Walter Brueggemann
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Walter Brueggemann
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 11
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Tilden
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