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" The nature of things is dharma. "

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" Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. "

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" External nature is only internal nature writ large. "

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" To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness. "

" Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. "

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" Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. "

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