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No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

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Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

Beauty, Chance, Particular, Particulars, Place, Seeing
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When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

Act, Beautiful, Space, Surface, Tears, Things

This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.

Impulse, Order, Sky, Teacher, Underlying, Willingness

Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

Activity, Exhausting, Military, Pieces, Produced, War

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

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How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Balance, Beautiful, Endless, Walks, Weights, World
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