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Madeleine L'Engle Quotes: I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
         

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.


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Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.



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