Freedom of the mind comes first. (A. Bartlett Giamatti at Yale commencement)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: June 16, 1986| Author: | Copyright information

FREEDOM OF THE MIND COMES FIRST

As I think back and look forward, I see how nothing is straightforward, nothing is unambiguous. Salvation does not come through simplicities, either of sentiment or system. The gray, grainy, complex nature of existence and the ragged edges of our lives as we lead them defy hunger for a neat, bordered existence and for spirits unsullied by doubt or despair.

This simply means that love and hate are fed, as Blake said, by the same nerve, that the force that includes can also definitely exclude, that the desire for something more perfect can, ...

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