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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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People who fear disorder more than injustice will only produce more of both.
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Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice.
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If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.
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Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
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All of life is the exercise of risk.
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Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.
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I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
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Socrates had it wrong it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion the Bible seeks to open one.
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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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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.
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Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.
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Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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