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Have you ever wished you could live a different life? Assume the identity of someone who’s living a life much more exciting and interesting than the life you’re living currently? Just like the Jack Nicholson character in that 1975 film The Passenger. Perhaps you could have been born with or developed many more skillsets that would…

The people came out onto the streets and prayed each season, for as the priest and the fisherman said, They’re with us always, so we should come and pray again. The long ceremony goes on though it took place weeks ago. And still, they come and pray. For tens of decades, they’ve talked and prayed.…

people waited and believed this time; their voices. answer. we have never been individuals. we are, and always will be, the answer that—that. tonight we can put out our hands and bend them forwards. once more. it’s been a long time, but tonight, we all look forward. promise in the months ahead. want this journey.…

My faith is shaken when I call for confidence, or I seek to renew this vision of trust, renew my spirit. Faith—faith in what I call traditions, institutions, faith in all of us together. Few recognise new terms for this faith calling us and much of Wall Street holds its breath…the tickers are being watched,…

My great friend. We meet once more. Tonight, more homes are watching our homes plummet. More cars drive, more credit cards play politics. Some women in Ohio find themselves disaster. A man in Indiana explains how he feels; families sit on their hands while major cities drown. Tonight, friends, you’re here. On November 4th, you’ll…

Berlin. extraordinary tonight. The journey. At the height decided, like so many others, the forgotten world— the dream— required promised. letter after letter. Yearning. somebody, somewhere answered. I touched down at Tempelhof. And that’s when—that’s when I knew this city. One fall day, hundreds of thousands to the Tiergarten. Look at a wall. Look at…

A forceful wind carries Jeremiah’s voice up to the rafters. Form some simple words and make a prophecy. Perfect? Of course, the answer time. And yet words the reality of their time. Tasked to run story. that in no other country on earth is story even possible. Blah, blah. It’s a story. One. Despite temptation…

You said the time has come to move beyond the bitter pettiness and anger, to end the strategy that’s been all about division, and instead make it about addition; to build a coalition of sorts because that’s how I’ll win, and that’s how I’ll finally meet the challenges I face. Doing so, I’ll be choosing…

I’d come alone to carry on the search for father. The institutional building where the search took place was labyrinthine—there were many stairwells and many doors to offices and apartments in the stairwells. But this was where they’d told me he would be. I entered a kind of vestibule area, where many people crowded. At…

He was adept at conveying benevolent feelings listeners wanted to share, that could lead to benevolent actions. In the speeches he gave in the wake of mass killings he seemed in his element. Not only in Newtown but Aurora, Fort Hood, in Tucson and after the marathon bombing grief-counselling the bereft homeowners and local officials…