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Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?
William Sloane Coffin
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William Sloane Coffin
Age: 81 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 2006
Died: April 12
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New York City
New York
William Sloane Coffin
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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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God knows it is emotionally satisfying to be righteous with that righteousness that nourishes itself on the blood of sinners. But God also knows that what is emotionally satisfying can be spiritually devastating.
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The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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