“Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.”
In support of John Kerry at the Democratic National Convention, Boston, MA, July 26, 2004
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Source: Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976), p. 48.
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The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
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