The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
– Georges Bataille
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- Knowledge gives you the world, intelligence gives you the sky, understanding gives you the stars, but wisdom gives you the universe. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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- The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing. – Richard Dawkins
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- Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends. – Barack Obama
- The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion. – Marcus J Borg
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- To be happy with your woman, make her emotional, but never becomes emotional! – Ramana Pemmaraju
- I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire. – Michael S Horton
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