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[Assistant] Cool stuff. Alright, I'll be right back with that Lightning McQueen.


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[Assistant] This was released in 2014 as a Target exclusive. It was in an acrylic case. It was kind of special until it got clearance for like $4 and then nobody really cared anymore. But yea, this McQueen never appeared in a movie but rather like some of the short stories.


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[Assistant] The Uncle Tokunyo's band releases are very underrated and I think that this guy is too because it's a non-canon quote unquote release, not in the movies, which Mattel doesn't do that often. They don't really release much that hasn't appeared in the movies or the shorts. So let's take a look here at those sponsors I was telling you guys about.


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[Assistant] Now even though this was made in China, they are all clumped together, so they don't look super clean. But you can see the overlap here. You have the piston cup.


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[Assistant] Sally's Motel, Toe Mather, you have Luigi's. There's a new Dying Code logo. Radio Springs Curious Shop.


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[Assistant] Ramon has an old Dianca logo, Sarge's, so Sarge's is also there. He's got a bigger, like, Mater logo.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I guess it is the same. There's just, see, it's like a tag that's coming off of his toe hook there.


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[Assistant] And that's basically what it is here, but they have like this extra little gook at the bottom, I don't know. The decal is just so bad, like all these are really terrible.


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[Assistant] This looks like the old Piston Cup logo actually. Just based on the font and how the cup itself looks. So yea, that's really cool.


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[Assistant] A lot of people just kind of blend this in with the World Grand Prix version, but you know, he's got the Red Air Spring. Oh, this must be the logo.


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[Assistant] Nice little crossover. We love that. Let me pull out the book, though, real quick. I just want to, whoop. Nope, did it again. Ah, we zoom out. Alright, let's pull out the book.


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[Assistant] This book just gives us such a better look at those details. If I can find it.


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[Assistant] I can't really even see it on the book. The book's more like concept art, based on how like,


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[Assistant] Pastely, pastel-esque the drawing is. It almost looks like it was drawn.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, these are actually really cool. They fit together to Radiator Springs centric.


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[Assistant] Paint jobs for these characters. And yea guys, thank you so much for watching this review of Saludos Amigos Ramon. Let me know what you guys think of him in the comment section below. I'm a big fan and I hope you guys are as well. I will see you soon for another video. Bye now!


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[Assistant] Believe you me, boys, I've had the time of my life tonight. And speaking of time, I have here a 14 carat 17 jewel timepiece.


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[Assistant] Five years of faithful service from J.J. Hogarth, 1909, 1934.


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[Assistant] Well, I, uh, I, I hardly know what to say, J.J. This, uh, why, it's beautiful. I, I never expected to own a watch like this. No, sir, I, well,


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[Assistant] All I can say is that, uh, we've got the best boss in New York.


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[Assistant] They, uh, Charlie, uh, you suppose J.J. is running around with that young lady? It looks that way.


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[Assistant] Not even when I was young. Yes, when we're young we have dreams that never pan out, but we go on dreaming. When I was young, I wanted to be an artist. You know, I dreamt I was going to be a great painter someday.


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[Assistant] Tessin. Oh, he was a great French painter. I'd like to own that painting.


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[Assistant] Well you, you can't put any price on masterpieces like that. They're worth, uh, well, whatever you can afford to pay for them.


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[Assistant] Well, that's, that's one way of looking at it. But you know, when I paint, uh, uh, I don't think of money. I just paint for fun.


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[Assistant] Oh, I've got to do the dishes for Adele. Uh, you don't mind, Charlie, do you? No, no, no, no. Go right ahead.


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[Assistant] Your wife's former husband. Detective Sergeant Higgins. Homer Higgins.


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[Assistant] The way I look at things, that's all art is. Every painting, if it's any good, is a love affair.


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[Assistant] I need $500. I could pay it back $10 a week.


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[Assistant] Did you read this? Read what? This murder in Queens.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Man hasn't got a chance with these New York Detectives.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, you won't have to. A friend of mine is taking an apartment in Greenwich Village. I'll move everything there.


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[Assistant] The sketches on the wall are Rivera's. He'd do that with his models sometimes when he was working on a magazine cover. Some people pay a lot of money for those. Are you an artist, Miss March?


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[Assistant] Glad to know you, Mr. Cross. How do you do? It seems to me I've seen you before somewhere. Could be. Could be, Mr. Cross. Yes, I, uh, I just don't seem to remember. Maybe I'm mistaken.


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[Assistant] Look Kitty, if I were single, if I had no wife,


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[Assistant] Yes, I know, but if she'd, uh, well, if something would happen that would make me free.


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[Assistant] Oh, uh, no, no, uh, no, Kitty, uh, n-n-not from Johnny.


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[Assistant] Where'd you pick him up? Over in Washington Square? The village long hairs are peddling junk like that?


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[Assistant] And that snake is strictly from the Bronx. This fella lives in Brooklyn. He's famous. Yeah, what's his name? Well, I... Look, Nick, I brought you stuff before and you never asked for any name on it. That was jewelry. Bring me some more of that.


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[Assistant] Right here, just like you'd sign a letter. Come on.


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[Assistant] See, I hope you don't mind my looking at your picture. Oh no, not at all, Mr. Prince. Fine work, that's remarkable painting.


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[Assistant] Would you marry me? You can't! Well, something might happen. What?


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[Assistant] Here's where the funny part is, it made a great deal of difference. If I'd brought those pictures to a man like Delaroy, he wouldn't have taken them. I'm a failure kitty.


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[Assistant] What she like? Mona Lisa without the smile. Something hidden. Sometimes it seems as if she were


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[Assistant] Quite a shock, huh? I don't think, Mr. Cross. Keep your head. I'll explain everything. Well, I was in trouble at the time. I'd been collecting a little extra money from the speakeasies along the waterfront. Word got around the headquarters. I was up for investigation. One night, I'm down by Brooklyn Bridge, trying to fix things up. A man runs in the speakeasy and says, woman just jumped off the bridge. So I run out and tear off my coat, jump in. The way I felt,


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[Assistant] What's it worth to you for me to keep my mouth shut and just, uh, fade away? Yes, but, but if you're Adele's husband... Wait a minute.


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[Assistant] You're going back to us? No! But not to do you a favor, mister. I'm clearing out for Adele's sake.


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[Assistant] Don't think you're gonna get any peace of mind either. I might turn up again someday. She'd kick you out in a minute for a man like me. Uh, I'll, I'll, I'll get you some money.


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[Assistant] No, just an infatuation. You couldn't love a man like that, Kitty. He's evil. He wouldn't let you alone, isn't that right?


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[Assistant] What made you do it, Chris? When these officers called me, I wouldn't believe it. We were tipped off on the telephone by a man named Higgins. I checked the cash before you came in. You know how much is missing?


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[Assistant] You can make the complaint, Mr. Hogarth. Hold on, Morris. I just can't do it.


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[Assistant] I thought so. I'm not gonna put you in jail, Chris. Only of course you're through.


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[Assistant] Tried to get away in the murdered girl's car. That was my car.


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[Assistant] This is yours too. It's got your initials on it. But it's hard blood.


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[Assistant] This belongs to you too, huh? It's got your fingerprints on it.


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[Assistant] He painted those pictures. Old Cross isn't as dumb as he looks. He painted them. The accused brought me two pictures. He told me Miss March painted them.


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[Assistant] She told me she was an artist when she rented this studio. He was with her. I didn't like him then and I don't like him now.


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[Assistant] My wife, uh, I mean my former wife is correct. I really can't paint.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like both, probably. Like I'm living with them at home and then on tour they're living with me.


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[Assistant] The end of last year-ish, but he still like comes back all the time, we like...


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[Assistant] Uhm, but that's, like, every year my family and me, we would all sit in the living room and watch the Grammys. Like, we never missed it. So, the fact that I'm the same, like, little girl watching that in my living room, and then I'm still in that same living room, like, being nominated for six, like, what is that?


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[Assistant] If that makes sense, I feel like I'm going up, like, I go up there to be better than myself.


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[Assistant] My life stuff, uhm, but the main thing I'm excited about is like to be able to drive my car past 11.


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[Assistant] And I was so busy, I mean, my life was pretty crazy in the last couple years, so I got to it a little bit late, even though it's something I've literally wanted to do my entire life. All I ever wanted to do was drive.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing, it's like a mindset you have to put yourself in. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about because if you... If you're like, you know what?


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[Assistant] CBS, right? You just tell yourself, fine. And then you're good, but if you're in a place that day where you just feel


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[Assistant] Not in the mood, that's when it just drives you crazy. So you have to like put yourself in the place of being like, you know what, this is fine, I'm good.


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[Assistant] And just enjoy it and like be happy. Like, I've been saying the last couple weeks, like, a couple weeks ago, I kind of decided to start, uhm, living like I just woke up and this was my life.


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[Assistant] No, like if I was, what, my 12 year old self and suddenly I woke up and this was my life, how would I look at it and what would I be like, oh my god, that right now I'm taking for granted. So like I've been trying to live like that lately.


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[Assistant] I don't wanna like say what she was, whatever, I don't know if it's like a secret or whatever, but she just was saying how, you know, she was on stage with, you know, all the girls, and they were...


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[Assistant] They were all just like smiling at each other and she was saying it was such a magical moment because she was saying that at the beginning and the middle it's like you work, work, work, work, work and you're huge, huge, huge and then it's done and it's like, oh.


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[Assistant] Like, where did that go? And I just thought about that and I was like, oh my god, I'm in that part of my life that in the future I'm gonna be like...


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[Assistant] Years later, after I had music out and stuff, uhm, I realized that I don't even, I don't even remember how it started, but I heard this on Gatekeeper that she has.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we like got together and we, we actually like got along really well and then we hung out a couple times, we wrote a song together, we wrote another song and then, yeaah, now we're just friends. She's like one of the-


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[Assistant] Most talented. She's probably like the best writer I've ever met besides my brother.


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[Assistant] I guess they wanted to be on the map and they wanted to be on the map by arresting so many and making this the biggest drug bust that they ever had. Whether it was done right or wrong.


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[Assistant] It never happened. He's that good. He's that good of a liar that he convinced the DA and the sheriff that that really happened.


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[Assistant] How they are struggling and how they might recover from both a health and an equity crisis that we find ourselves in.


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[Assistant] Housing costs were skyrocketing and that actually meant that the essential workers that we now recognize we need to have.


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[Assistant] Bishan, I mean, I think you were talking about something that, uh, we are all very keen to


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[Assistant] Right, right. And we do see that happen. And I believe Helen is here with some questions from our community.


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[Assistant] Fisan, that reminds me of, uhm, something that you've spoken about before, which is the sort of the more locality, like the idea that we see in Paris right now, uhm, where, you know, essential needs and essential community needs are not with, uhm, you know, not necessary for us to travel


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[Assistant] Thank you. Thank you Bishan. You know, I know that, uhm, you're not in the business of fortune telling, but, uh, I think you are absolutely in the business of building back better.


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[Assistant] I think that your ideas, uh, and your initiatives are more


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[Assistant] People often ask us, where can you have a boat race in Bante Chamar? You don't have a river.


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[Assistant] Okay now, let's begin. Seremon, you first.


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[Assistant] In the past, restorations were only done by foreigners. When Cambodians came here, all they saw was rubble. Now, when they come back, they'll see a restored temple wall standing again, and say, wow, that's great.


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[Assistant] He's the samurai warrior of Silicon Valley. Larry's attitude is, if you want to compete against me, then be prepared to be crushed.


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[Assistant] I went into my cubicle on the first day I worked there and across the hall were a couple guys who never seemed to do any work. They just talked all the time.


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[Assistant] And one of them did nothing but talk about himself, how smart he was, how stupid everyone else was, and how he really ought to be running everything. And that was Larry Ellison.


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[Assistant] To say he, he had the attention span of a tumbleweed is to overestimate it. I would say more the attention span of a lightning bolt.


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[Assistant] He did want me to join him, uh, and he's gonna start some kind of company, and I thought that was...


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[Assistant] The stupidest idea I'd ever heard because Larry wasn't famous for finishing things. I used to say he's a total flake and he'll never amount to anything and I was half right.


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[Assistant] Was, uh, under a lot of pressure to get some money in somehow.


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[Assistant] There were four of us who were writing programs. Larry was mostly involved in finding customers. And that was a, a bizarre idea because we had no software.


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[Assistant] There was no version one because everyone thought, uh, well no one buys version one, it's buggy. So we started with version two.


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[Assistant] Well our version 2 was at least as buggy as anyone's version 1, and I describe those early versions as the roach motel of databases. The data went in, but it didn't come out.


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[Assistant] For some reason, Larry told the Bank of America, I think he told us there were 15 of us, when in fact there were 5 of us. I'm not sure why the Bank of America would think differently of you if you're 5 or 15, but Larry had given them a number which was a little larger than reality.


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[Assistant] Larry's attitude is if, if you want to compete against me, then you better be prepared to be crushed or don't compete against me.


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[Assistant] When I ordered a Ferrari 348 and I was going to get the first 348 in California, uhm, Larry ordered one from somewhere in the East Coast and got it shipped in before I got mine. He didn't want to be the second one, he wanted to be the first one.


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[Assistant] Dad, we made a terrible mistake with her. Somehow she's got to be made to understand that Larry's dead. It's insane what she's doing. She might hear us. Dad, walk over to the garage with me. I want to talk to you.


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[Assistant] Give us some more thought, kid. I have given it thought. I hoped we could have a regular wedding and everything happy. But if that can't be, then I'll have to get out. What are you talking about? I'll get out, that's all. Get married and live someplace else. Are you crazy? I've got a right to live my own life.


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[Assistant] If I have to grub for my money all day long, at least I want something for it. I want a family, a home. I want some kids. I want to build something I can give myself to. End's in the middle of that. Now where do I find it? Here or elsewhere? You name it.


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[Assistant] Annie's different, Mom. No matter what the others may think or do, she's different.


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[Assistant] She's worried about George. She thinks he's coming here to make trouble.


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[Assistant] But you told them this in court and they didn't believe you. The judge, the jury, all those men, they didn't believe you. Why?


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[Assistant] Now be quiet, Kate. I want to hear what he has to say. It's impossible to put down the things I feel. But I've got to tell you something. Yesterday, they flew in a load of papers from the States. And I read about Dad and your father. I'm not clever the way you are, the way Chris is. And I cannot understand or make myself understand how this could have happened. We get to be proud of the planes we fly. They come to be piece by piece.


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[Assistant] Bit by bit, something of you at home who have made them. We are not alone. But my father has made me alone. He has betrayed us all. You at home who have kept faith with us. And we who have kept faith with you. I'm ashamed. I can't face the other men. I can't face anybody. I don't know how to tell you any. But I'm going out on a mission in a few minutes. And I will not come back.


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[Assistant] I want you to forgive me Annie for doing this, but it's the only way I know how to pay for what he has done.


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[Assistant] What was Larry to you? A stone that fell into the water? It's not enough to be sorry. Larry didn't kill himself so you and Dad could be sorry. He did it to show you.


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[Assistant] Once and for all, you can know that the whole earth comes in through those fences. That there's a universe outside and you're responsible to it. And if you're not, then you threw your son away. Because that's why he died, you understand? That's why.


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[Assistant] Welcome to The Expositor Podcast with Dr. Stephen J. Lawson. Dr. Lawson is the founder and president of One Passion Ministries. The Expositor Podcast is focused on taking your preaching to the next level. Now, here's Dr. Lawson.


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[Assistant] So I was thinking we could discuss today on the topic of social justice and spiritual wisdom. And we could talk about this in broadly three topics, three sections. What is right about social justice?


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[Assistant] And where the drive for social justice sometimes can make you deficient and how spiritual wisdom can complement it.


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[Assistant] Different from just justice or individual justice. Normally we may use the word justice in the sense that if somebody has done something wrong to me and I get some reparations from a court.


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[Assistant] In the sense that there is uhm, a verdict that comes out or a system that is there is fair.


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[Assistant] Individually sometimes people cannot get what they deserve even if they try.


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[Assistant] As much as they, as much as they try, if the system itself is rigged against them.


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[Assistant] And social justice in one sense is strongly opposed to the western idea of meritocracy.


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[Assistant] Where the idea is that if you work hard, then you will succeed.


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[Assistant] But here the idea is that rags to riches stories are there but social justice holds that they are so rare.


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[Assistant] And, in fact, Raksul's stories are often touted so that


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[Assistant] Any systemic change is avoided. That means if somebody is


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[Assistant] And social justice holds that this is unfair to the individual because sometimes, even with your best effort, society is unfair and rigged against you, then you will never succeed.


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[Assistant] So there, it will be almost impossible for you to succeed and that's why the idea is we need to do some social engineering. Society itself has to...


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[Assistant] Uh, yes, partially, but in some ways, I think,


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[Assistant] Uh, Plato's Republic was the primary book for Western administrative systems and many things have evolved from there.


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[Assistant] In general, in modern times, social justice has, uh,


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[Assistant] Arisen from Marxist ideology, social justice is often associated with socialism, which is a milder form of Marxism, Marxism. So, Marxism had the idea that, now Marxism, Communism, Socialism, they're somewhat different. Marx was more the political theorist. Communism was what was implemented. And many people say that it was a misrepresentation or misapplication of what


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[Assistant] The world is divided into hierarchies. There are haves and have nots.


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[Assistant] There are the wealthy, the powerful, the influential and there are the deprived.


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[Assistant] Society is arranged this way and that needs to be fixed.


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[Assistant] And, uh, so broadly it's more from a, uh, political left side of, uh,


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[Assistant] Of the communism and that kind of ideology, from what I understand.


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[Assistant] While certain, the facts of social justice are true, that it's not always possible for an individual to


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[Assistant] Uh, this one thinker who is, who gives a thought experiment, he says that suppose before you were born, you had the facility


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[Assistant] Are there certain places, certain settings which you would not want to be born in?


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[Assistant] Then this is, that is where it's indicative that some amount of social justice is needed, that there is discrimination, there is disparity in society and that needs to be fixed. So we might want to be born in a place where broadly, uh, there is


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[Assistant] Good education, there is good medication, there is good system of justice.


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[Assistant] That's one thought exercise to drive home the reality that there is disparity.


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[Assistant] And it needs to be fixed. So once we feel, okay, this is where I would not want to be born. Then, oh, okay.


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[Assistant] That means something is wrong over there and that needs to be fixed. So that's how we can develop some amount of empathy for this.


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[Assistant] Both in its theoretical foundation and its practical application. So in practical application if you look at it.


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[Assistant] We do know that the attempts for social engineering led to disaster in, in Soviet Russia and in China. In Soviet Russia especially.


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[Assistant] They were the, after the Bolshevik revolution, all those who were wealthy farmers, they were destroyed.


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[Assistant] So many of them were sent to the gulags, which were like the gulags which were like the concentration camps and so with Russia. And then...


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[Assistant] Their wealth and their property was given to the poor people.


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[Assistant] There was one of the biggest man-made femmins in the late 1920s because all the wealthy farmers who were


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[Assistant] They were in some ways hardworking. They knew how agriculture worked and they knew what to sow and how to manage it. They were all either killed or sent to the concentration camps. And people who were incompetent, they were


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[Assistant] They were given the wealth and profit and they just couldn't manage it.


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[Assistant] There is the presumption over here that the victims are virtuous.


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[Assistant] Are bad people. They're bad because they must have exploited, they must have gamed the system.


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[Assistant] Yes, there are, we could say in human society there are good people and bad people, but, uh,


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[Assistant] Lostovsky, the prominent Russian thinker, he said that


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[Assistant] So that communism draws this line or the ideology underlying social justice draws this line very neatly between those who are powerful and those who are powerless.


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[Assistant] However, he says this line between good and evil, it goes through every human heart.


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[Assistant] And that means that people who are deprived, people who are in a difficult situation, it could be that because of their vices they are there.


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[Assistant] And people who are successful and powerful, it could be because of certain virtues that they are there. By virtues, it's not necessarily...


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[Assistant] Moral ability, not necessarily morality, it could also be simply ability. Somebody is just good at doing certain things and somebody is not good at doing certain things.


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[Assistant] So uhm, so the suspicion, the default suspicion of hierarchy


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[Assistant] Itself could be a problem in social justice. Just like if you want to cook food and you want to eat, we have 10 people in a house, then there might be one or two who are good at cooking.


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[Assistant] And if they are in charge and they tell okay, you, you cut the vegetables, you go and buy this and you do this.


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[Assistant] And this could be a whole different subject. But this is permeated into gender theory where quite often


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[Assistant] Women are portrayed as the victims and men are by default the exploiters. This is even permeated into parenting.


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[Assistant] Where it is said that parents are sometimes abusive to the children, which is true. It happens sometimes.


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[Assistant] But the children need guidance and mentoring. So the idea of complete coddling of children and almost no disciplining of children.


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[Assistant] Because parents are in a powerful position, children are in a powerless position. So this default suspicion of hierarchy can lead to a completely dysfunctional society. And that is what has happened, broadly speaking, uh, in, uh, in communist countries where


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[Assistant] Social justice attempts were made at a societal level and the result was disastrous. It is not that, uh, by the social engineering alone,


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[Assistant] In a scale that has not been seen otherwise in human history. A hundred million people were killed in the communist governments.


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[Assistant] And one argument which is given often here is that, oh, it was misimplemented.


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[Assistant] Stalin or Lenin where people, where vicious people. But the problem is, in this system, okay, if there is, even if there is a virtuous person,


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[Assistant] And if there is ideological justification for...


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[Assistant] The social engineering, it may often go by that person's biases and whims of who are to be considered the exploiters and who are to be considered the exploited.


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[Assistant] And anybody who is considered to be opposing one could be called as the opponent of the state, which is actually out to do good.


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[Assistant] And we see this happening today. Now often those who favor social engineering are the left, are people on the left.


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[Assistant] And so liberals are illiberal towards anyone who is not liberal.


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[Assistant] So, that is where social justice often goes into a...


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[Assistant] Uh, into excesses. The effort for social justice can go into excesses. Any thoughts on this?


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[Assistant] That's interesting. I once saw a slogan outside a church, you know, give God what is right, not what is left.


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[Assistant] So sometimes we give, sometimes charity when it is not given wholeheartedly. When it is, when the, what is the 18, 17 chapter?


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[Assistant] The third verse over there is that when it is done with resentment, when charity is given with resentment,


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[Assistant] When that is charity, then in the mode of passion or ignorance. Yeah. And that doesn't work. That's a good point.


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[Assistant] So, if, if people's hearts are not really into it, they will, it will not work. So that is true. So one side is that uhm,


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[Assistant] In terms of its, uh, social excesses, you brought that point that, uh,


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[Assistant] In some ways, social justice movement considers that religion perpetuates social injustice.


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[Assistant] That you are told if you live a virtuous life, then you will have a good life in the future.


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[Assistant] So live a good life means that you don't create disruption in society. You just do the duties of where you are and whatever role you have in society.


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[Assistant] And Marx had the idea that throughout human history, injustice, unfair system of society were maintained by these kind of religious


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[Assistant] Justification of existing inequities.


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[Assistant] So for, for example, the aristocracy, what we call the royalty or, and there was a royalty, royalty and there was a


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[Assistant] So the general people were there in the medieval world. So the idea was all those were aristocrats. They practically never worked. They would just have their...


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[Assistant] The social injustice was justified and perpetuated.


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[Assistant] Uh, within the Indian context,


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[Assistant] Because in the Indian tradition, the idea of reincarnation is accepted.


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[Assistant] And this is their idea that if somebody is born in a deprived condition, that is because of what you have done in your past lives.


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[Assistant] So it's because of your karma, you are born poor, you are born disempowered, you are born deprived.


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[Assistant] Not in this life you can't move, but in your next life you can move. And if you are here it's unfair.


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[Assistant] So Christianity had the idea that it was a divine dispensation.


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[Assistant] This is a very important point which you made that


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[Assistant] The wise that can corrupt the powerful, the wise that can corrupt the powerless.


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[Assistant] Which will make them do self destructively, say,


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[Assistant] But that same voice can also corrupt people who are within religious hierarchies also. And when that happens, then that can lead to the abuse of the religious ideas for justifying inequity. But if we consider within


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[Assistant] And unless that is done, so vice could be self-destructive habits where people are smoking and drinking and


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[Assistant] Uh, things like, uh, people are into substance abuse. And then that is terrible.


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[Assistant] So unless there is some way to foster, nurture virtue and to remove vice, any system can fall apart and I would say that this is where


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[Assistant] Spiritual wisdom can play a part. So I would like to show a four point diagram, four quadrant diagram.


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[Assistant] If there is only social engineering, that means we bring out social justice but there is no spiritual wisdom. Then the problem can happen in two ways.


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[Assistant] Even if those who are, those who are sometimes called as social justice warriors.


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[Assistant] If the people in general who are benefited, it may well happen that somebody instead of, they were poor,


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[Assistant] Why were they poor? Because they, uh, they were doing substance abuse and they were not able to hold a job. And then you, you say that okay, you will get money from the government as welfare.


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[Assistant] Because your life has been unjust to you. But then they might just live like that and not actually do anything to improve their lot. So from both ways it could be unsustainable. And this could be, there could be a critique of this which could be discussed. Now spiritual wisdom with social justice, it at least makes life bearable. Why bearable?


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[Assistant] Okay, that even if you consider just the Christian worldview, okay, there is a better future for me, if not in this life, in the next life. So I can accept my lot.


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[Assistant] Although there was blatant huge difference between say the nobility and general people, but it's not that say if there was a lord who had a butler.


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[Assistant] So rather than only considering that by way of previous life you are born into certain level of poverty and certain level of wealth, but that sense of karma can give us some acceptance of it.


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[Assistant] I would like to differentiate between acceptance and passivity or acceptance and resignation.


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[Assistant] That, this is how it is, I accept it. Now this is how I am meant to for the rest of my life, that would be resignation.


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[Assistant] And to curb virtue in their own, sorry, to cultivate virtue and curb vice in their own hearts.


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[Assistant] Because it led to indiscriminate bloodshed and somehow that lesson


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[Assistant] Was not learned in some ways by history and that was repeated.


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[Assistant] So the French Revolution, probably the unrest was there for maybe 10-15 years and Napoleon Bonaparte came up after that.


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[Assistant] He recognized the cause underlying the French Revolution and then he tried to, although he was the king and in some ways his system was, uh,


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[Assistant] His system was similar to the earlier system, but he tried to institute meritocracy.


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[Assistant] That, it's not that by birth you will become a, uh, uh, become a...


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[Assistant] Lord or a commander or a leader in my government, you can do it by merit also.


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[Assistant] But now that same thing was tried for 60-70 years after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and China.


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[Assistant] And I think you quoted, was it Gorbachev who said that this should have been done in a small area before?


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[Assistant] The willingness to give up power if required. Yeah.


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[Assistant] The sooner or later the lure of power can become irresistible.


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[Assistant] And even if, say, there's one, there could be people who, say, who seek social justice right now, and they, they might be genuinely compassionate. Uh, that they genuinely want a change in society.


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[Assistant] So, one place I took two thoughts at that. One is that in some ways social justice and social engineering tries to get the state to play God.


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[Assistant] He said it has happened that God is dead now in the sense that there is no rational basis for accepting the idea of God. He said as a result of this two things may happen. One is obsessive individualism or totalitarianism. So if there is no God,


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[Assistant] Then either I, I become God and I decide whatever I want to do, I'll do it or the state will become God.


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[Assistant] When the idea of meritocracy is taken to its extremes, it is like I am the determiner of my destiny. So basically I am God and I can make the world the way I want it to be.


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[Assistant] And, so, if we can broadly associate meritocracy with capitalism.


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[Assistant] Then the opposite of meritocracy is society is unmeritocracy, it's unfair.


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[Assistant] And the state will rearrange everything in such a way that everything is benevolently and equitably arranged. But the problem is that if someone tries to be God, it


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[Assistant] It's extremely high probability that basically they will end up becoming the devil.


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[Assistant] Because that power can corrupt, corrupt in a very dangerous way.


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[Assistant] So when we think that we can shape people's destinies, that, oh, that means the idea is, uh, the way the world is, it's unfair.


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[Assistant] The key thing is yes, society has to be changed. There's injustice and definitely.


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[Assistant] Take social justice to a level that is sustainable. Otherwise, it will be basic, it will be problematic.


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[Assistant] At least there are two distinct points you made that if there is a desire to appear successful,


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[Assistant] Then the idea, if somebody has the power of social engineering, of being God, then they can, they can do quite a lot of harm.


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[Assistant] So rather than looking simply at the social situation in which somebody is born and saying this is unfair and this is fair,


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[Assistant] We could also look at the psychological disposition with which a person is born.


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[Assistant] I'd like to talk about two distinct experiences I had. When I travel abroad I often


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[Assistant] What I've observed is that there's one devotee at whose place I studied. He told me that he's a big doctor and he has six secretaries. And he says that his schedule is...


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[Assistant] He works with six different hospitals and each hospital has its own secretary.


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[Assistant] And he says his schedule is planned for at least 6 weeks in advance. If he has to attend one program, he has to plan 6 weeks in advance.


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[Assistant] If I don't get enough sleep for any reason, he is going from one hospital to another hospital, he goes and sits in the parking lot and he says, I take a three minute nap before going out of my, getting out of my, uh, car and going to the next, and he has to do surgery and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] So the point is that when I saw his schedule and then I talked with him about, now, is this what you're doing exceptional?


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[Assistant] He says, no, people who have my level of success, everybody does that.


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[Assistant] There has to be a certain level of competence to be successful in society.


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[Assistant] Now, even if we consider in the past there were kings or even when aristocracy was there, nobility was there, some of them might have been wastrels.


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[Assistant] But for anyone to be in a position of power and to maintain that


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[Assistant] So the presumption that those who are successful are so simply because they have, because the system was rigged in their favour.


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[Assistant] They have certain amount of virtue and in our tradition there is the idea that if somebody is a king, the king should be respected. There is a story of Prabhupada where some devotees had gone to some circus and people were poking a tiger and making fun of it. And some devotee also started doing that and Prabhupada said no.


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[Assistant] Rupad quoted from the Bhagavad Gita that, I think it was a lion, not a, uh, it was a zoo. It was a zoo.


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[Assistant] So then Prabhupada said that, you know,


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[Assistant] This is, this animal is meant to be like a king. Don't humiliate him like that.


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[Assistant] And it's also there that Sanatan Goswami, when Navabu Sisha came to their place, they all got up to respect him. And the idea is that if somebody is a king right now, the king could be brutal.


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[Assistant] But even if somebody is not having, if somebody is a particular position, that position should be respected.


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[Assistant] That means even if somebody is virtuous, afterward somebody comes up who is not that virtuous and then that person is throw over thrown.


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[Assistant] So golden receptacle is that a person has to have, uh, that level of maturity or that level of virtue.


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[Assistant] And by Tapasya, you could also say that that is the effort that a person is putting either in the previous life or in this life also.


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[Assistant] That's interesting. Sometimes I say that for success there are three distinct components. There is talent, there is commitment and there is temperament.


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[Assistant] So, now, talent is, say somebody is, somebody is just in cricket, say for example, somebody is an extraordinary batsman. They are just very, very talented.


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[Assistant] But then commitment is when they are ready to practice, put in the math, work very hard.


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[Assistant] So we could put it in terms of your metaphor, the capacity to milk a tigress.


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[Assistant] That could fall in the talent or the temperament, but the, yeah.


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[Assistant] We might be, we might be in a position of deprivation right now.


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[Assistant] And certainly at a level of society, changes do need to be made.


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[Assistant] Who would have system, who would themselves give charity and who would have systems for giving charity. But along with that, we would also have the, so charity was a very, very important principle and uh,


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[Assistant] Basically I read one very interesting insight about the difference between charity and


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[Assistant] Uh, what you could call a dole or subsidy, whatever word you want to use, subsidy or, uh, government use some support.


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[Assistant] So what, what the difference is that when an individual gives charity, that actually leads to


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[Assistant] And it also develops some kind of connection between the giver and the receiver of charity.


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[Assistant] But when the state gives some endowment, or the state gives something to people, then it doesn't lead to...


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[Assistant] It's, it's not leading to the sense of charity being developed rather...


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[Assistant] People, after where the, after where the state is going to give it from, it's from the taxes that people have been given. People have given to the country.


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[Assistant] So at an individual level, it can even lead to a sense of suddenness of hard-heartedness.


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[Assistant] So, so the institutionalization of welfare, the institutionalization of social change can actually lead to the hardening of the human heart.


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[Assistant] So that entitlement mentality can work both ways, uh, to, to harm the


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[Assistant] So we need to avoid that and one of the best ways to do that is


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[Assistant] It is given to me for some time and let me use it as well as I can. But if I have wealth, if I have power, let me use it to create some kind of equitability.


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[Assistant] And spiritual practice can actually transform.


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[Assistant] People so that virtue can rise in their heart and vice can go down. And then the whole system can become sustainable.


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[Assistant] Maybe in our next session we could apply this whole discussion to the existing, to the caste system.


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[Assistant] And we could differentiate that from Varanasi as it was traditionally meant to be. And so we could take it forward. So maybe I'll summarize. Please.


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[Assistant] So, we started with three points. What is right about social justice, what is deficient, and how spirituality complements it.


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[Assistant] So the right thing is that we do see inequality in society. Some people are in terrible deprivation and they need to be helped.


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[Assistant] And the idea of meritocracy is that if you just work hard, you'll be succeeding, you'll succeed.


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[Assistant] Is a important point, it's not just an individual effort.


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[Assistant] But where it is deficient is that there is a default suspicion of hierarchy.


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[Assistant] And those who are deprived are virtuous and unfairly unfairly.


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[Assistant] So the line that separates vice and virtue is simplistically drawn that


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[Assistant] Those who are, those who are victims or deprivers are virtuous and those who are, those who are powerful are vicious. But it is in every human heart, that line.


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[Assistant] And the problem with this understanding is quite often that


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[Assistant] Those who are powerful, they may be, social engineering, social revolution might be done, they might be overthrown.


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[Assistant] So we talked about the Russian Revolution and also the French Revolution. What happened therein?


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[Assistant] And then, uh, we discussed about the four quadrant diagram.


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[Assistant] That if social, there is no social justice and there is no spiritual wisdom, then it is unbearable.


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[Assistant] If there is social justice but there is no spiritual wisdom, then it is unsustainable. Because somebody else will come and they will take over that power.


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[Assistant] So now by spiritual wisdom, there are distinct aspects to it. One is...


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[Assistant] That the existing arrangement, the existing social arrangement is divine providence.


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[Assistant] If I accept it and live, so the Christian understanding is that if you live dutifully,


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[Assistant] But if we took the, take the understanding of the Gita,


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[Assistant] Acceptance is where I am, I accept resignation is I can't do anything about it. And this is how I have to be forever. That's not the idea.


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[Assistant] So, uh, if it is at this level, at least


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[Assistant] Whether it is in the people who are deprived or people who are, uh, people who are powerful. And in that connection, we discussed how, that, uh, when Nisha said that when God is removed, either the individual becomes God or the state becomes God. So capitalism and meritocracy are like the individual is God.


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[Assistant] And communism and extreme versions of social justice are that the state will be God.


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[Assistant] But the state cannot foster virtue in people. And the end result is that, uh, instead of God, some people become like devils. So you give the example of, uh,


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[Assistant] That means for somebody to have power, they also need


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[Assistant] We understand that whatever I have is given to me by God and it is temporarily with me and I have to give it up sooner or later.


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[Assistant] That understanding can ensure that one doesn't develop the entitlement mentality. And then one can use things equitably. And instead of having the state reform, if it's individuals doing it,


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[Assistant] And at one point that guy too, I read up on it, he was a road manager for Young Thug, so he gave a phone call to Birdman before shooting up the bus.


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[Assistant] Margie, my dear little Margie, I'd make the world a ruby for your little finger, and say, I love you, I love you.


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[Assistant] Hey buddy! I want to thank you for the plug you gave that song last night. It's all set with Tommy Thomas for Emily to sing in Chicago tomorrow night. Chicago? Yeah, that's their next date, the Palmer House.


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[Assistant] Sure, right after the show. I wish you'd hurry up and get out here. I want to talk to her. Kinda went overboard for each other, didn't you, kid? Kinda. She told me. Oh, they all tell me everything. You going back to the farm soon?


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[Assistant] I'll give it to you quick. She's married. She's got a husband, see. He don't work at it very hard. They split up about a year ago. He claims he's a songwriter, but he's just no good at it. As a matter of fact, he's just no good, period.


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[Assistant] She liked him though. Sort of knocked her out for a while. Come to think of it, you're the first guy she's looked at since then. I guess I just don't understand the people in your business. Take my word, they're the same as anybody else. They make mistakes, sure. But don't everybody? Are all the people in your town perfect? Why didn't she tell me? She told you why? She didn't want to spoil everything.


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[Assistant] Easy does it pal, easy does it. I'm okay. Sure you are. What about this Eleanor? It's a girl from back home. They say you guys are away from school together, huh?


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[Assistant] I keep thinking I'll get off the elevator at the wrong floor, but I never do.


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[Assistant] Little, little dumpling, my son John. Hey, that don't rhyme like it used to.


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[Assistant] Hi Billy, I'm Isabelle. Uhm, so obviously you have really amazing style. Does your mom ever ask to borrow your clothes?


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[Assistant] There never was a Christmas dinner like the one they had that day.


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[Assistant] Mr Lawrence and his grandson ate with them, and so did Mr Brock.


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[Assistant] Joe gave the tooter many black looks and would not speak to him, which amused Laurie. The guests left early.


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[Assistant] And the happy family sat together around the fire.


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[Assistant] A year ago we were complaining about the awful Christmas we expected to have. Do you remember? said Joe.


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[Assistant] It's been quite a good year, said Meg, thinking about Mr. Brooke. I think it's been a hard one, said Amy. I'm glad it's over, because we've got Father back, whispered Beth, who was sitting on his knee.


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[Assistant] I've discovered several things about you young ladies today," said Mr. March. Oh, tell us what they are, cried Meg. Here's one, he said, taking her hand. It had a small burn on the back.


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[Assistant] And two or three little hard places on the front.


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[Assistant] You really mustn't, darling. I'm going to be perfectly all right, really. And besides...


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[Assistant] Well, without thinking, I told him we'd pick him up and give him a lift as far as Denver.


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[Assistant] I do already. Don't drive fast and please take care of yourself. Sorry.


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[Assistant] I see. Ask him to come up, please.


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[Assistant] That ought to be enough to get an indictment out of the grand jury.


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[Assistant] Underestimating the enemy's ammunition would scarcely be wise.


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[Assistant] Now, if we can get to trial before Torrance is found, they'll never get a conviction. But... But what? If he shows up, we may have to fry him.


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[Assistant] The same thing always happened. Very sorry. No prejudice of course, but no job either.


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[Assistant] The same thing happened 20 years ago to Nick's father. He died with a policeman's bullet in him. Nick saw it. It was one of his earliest memories.


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[Assistant] Yes, next stop awesoming. Plenty of jobs here, even for the unlucky ones, and no prejudice.


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[Assistant] But I will read what books you please, hear what arguments you please. You shall be my guide, philosopher, and friend.


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[Assistant] You see, there are degrees of evil.


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[Assistant] She was very competent. She's articulate.


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[Assistant] Attractive, she was very friendly, she was very welcoming, and I think she was doing a very good job.


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[Assistant] She was in a foreign country who was going to believe her. She is a single mom. She needed her job. Uhm, and she had just kept it.


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[Assistant] To herself until this happened and then she was very angry.


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[Assistant] And she was offered a cash settlement and, uhm, and a letter of recommendation.


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[Assistant] Because they are the ones who profit from them and there is recorded evidence about how people have profited from war. So first I would like, uh, like there are many things, but just to prioritize, this is old Greek saying trouble at home, war abroad. That is whenever you find your domestic policies unmanageable, you have made some big


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[Assistant] Uh, strategists, they were military generals, they were princes, they were kings, but they also were at the forefront of an economy.


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[Assistant] I see other names like sorry to digress but other names like Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer, they are also taken in conjunction with this whole project.


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[Assistant] For this particular purpose, do you want to take the opinion of the state? So his famous quote is the state? That's me.


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[Assistant] Slogans are there, but we don't see any as such. But this also could be there that a Kshatriya, as you rightly said, properly guided by Shastra in the hands of Brahmanas,


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[Assistant] Uh, this leads me to think about this one thing that as, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, destroyed, socially destroyed, a nation becomes politically destroyed, and therefore they say war doesn't show who is right, it just says who is left.


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[Assistant] I'm going to change that a little bit, saying that


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[Assistant] And one of that is China is facing its own problem. China is having a difficult economy because of the virus and other things. China is dominated by one party rule.


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[Assistant] China's army, the People's Liberation Army is the army of the communist party. There is no way they can even have any other kind of opinions or whatever.


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[Assistant] And, uh, so I'm tying so many things now. Trouble at home, war abroad is one thing which the Chinese could be using. And they say that in a staring match, the first guy who blinks loses. Yes. So, so today's countries also use the border, uh, skirmishes as a staring match.


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[Assistant] I have to say a debt, I have a debt of gratitude to everyone. So why not to the soldiers who are doing that? So personally, I feel grateful. And there's an 11th canto, Krishna advises Uddhava that one should offer respects to all living entities, all. It's not only devotees or sannyasa devotees. So I would say nothing wrong if


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[Assistant] A practical praise for the well being and protection of soldiers at the border.


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[Assistant] They just can't afford, they don't, they just have an army and a reserve army. So army is active army, reserve army is everybody else.


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[Assistant] Uh, as with any institution, we also have a binary approach, one or nil. So there could be some places where


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[Assistant] And seeing that I don't want that kind of atmosphere in my project, my temple or something. So you give a free hand.


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[Assistant] They need to find out their space in the secular world outside where they can act as intellectuals and


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[Assistant] Council politicians, if they have the chance or voice their opinions about how we should fight or not fight or wait or whatever, that can't be allowed.


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[Assistant] The island of Taiwan is perfect for food lovers. Diverse cultures influence the cuisine. Join me as I embark on a fun, filled and tasty journey of its capital, Taipei.


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[Assistant] Taipei's inhabitants enjoy a rich culinary history, including popular night markets as well as top addresses for handmade dumplings.


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[Assistant] Taiwan's capital is located 180 kilometers southeast of mainland China. A thriving and modern metropolis, its cultural identity has been strongly influenced by both China and Japan.


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[Assistant] Taipei is surrounded by green hills and mountains and has developed rapidly over the last decades from an almost insignificant small town to an internationally important metropolis.


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[Assistant] The country produces some of the finest oolong teas in the world. These are traditional semi-oxidized teas.


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[Assistant] Cold black tea serves as the base with milk and tapioca pearls. Tapioca is derived from the cassava plant. All together it makes for a refreshingly light treat.


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[Assistant] And I'm going to visit one of Taipei's oldest, the popular Raohe night market. It's open daily from 4pm to midnight.


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[Assistant] I come across some interesting snacks which I've never seen before.


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[Assistant] But the food you find at this market is very fresh and mostly from the region. It may be prepared quickly, but by no means is this fast food.


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[Assistant] Stinky tofu is seasoned with garlic and kimchi.


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[Assistant] Buddhism is one of the major religions of Taiwan. There are hundreds of temples throughout Taipei. But the Bao'an temple stands out.


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[Assistant] One way of communicating with the gods is through jiao bei, or red crescent-shaped pieces of wood. If the two pieces fall on opposite sides, then the gods' answer to the question is yes.


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[Assistant] Today my journey leads me to a special restaurant, the Top 1 Pot.


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[Assistant] The restaurant serves many different kinds of hot pot sets, including royal spicy hot pot, chicken pot, pickled cabbage pot, and duo pots.


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[Assistant] We order the duo pot with chicken, then we add our own ingredients, including meatballs, a lobster boat, pork neck slices, and so-called beef from heaven.


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[Assistant] My tasty diary, day two. Hot pot reflections. A feast for the eyes. A celebration for all the senses. A meal fit for a king, or in my case, an empress. No wonder this sets the standard for Taiwanese cuisine.


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[Assistant] Many of Taiwan's inhabitants have close relations to mainland China.


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[Assistant] When communist leader Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949, some 2 million people fled to Taiwan.


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[Assistant] The metro system, or the MRT, serves millions of passengers daily.


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[Assistant] And it's how we get to today's destination.


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[Assistant] The dim sum here at Din Tai Fung is unique.


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[Assistant] This is a very popular restaurant thanks to its basket steam buns.


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[Assistant] On weekdays, the staff makes 7 to 8,000 chao long bao dumplings and 12,000 on the weekends. They pay close attention to detail and to the balance of the ingredients.


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[Assistant] My Tasty Diary Day 3. Din Tai Fung Reflections.


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[Assistant] This is Taipei's number one address for xiaolongbao, which means finger food in a basket.


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[Assistant] dried meats and lots of dried seafood snacks.


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[Assistant] These traditional products are popular among the Taiwanese both young and old for their healing properties. And that also includes a popular dish.


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[Assistant] My tasty diary day four. Taiwanese porridge reflections. Mild but tasty. Various dishes with interesting names and sides are a must. Nothing tastes as I expected. Not salty or sugary.


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[Assistant] Day 5 is dedicated to street food. It's no secret that the Taiwanese love to eat and you can find delicious food pretty much on every street corner. There are all kinds of cuisine from Chinese to Southeast Asian.


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[Assistant] Street food is really great here. It's fast, healthy, and inexpensive. That's one reason many Taiwanese eat their meals out.


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[Assistant] The flip side of street food is the five star yen restaurant in the W Hotel.


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[Assistant] This is where chefs really show off Taiwan's diverse culinary tradition.


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[Assistant] Their creations are artistic, colorful, and sometimes look too good to eat, like the braised beef noodles, which are served in a savory soup.


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[Assistant] Okay, because the broth is so special.


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[Assistant] This is a dish with a taste that's hard to resist, and it's only one highlight among many on my culinary journey through Taipei.


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[Assistant] My favorite national dish because it seems the Taiwanese are very proud of everything that they eat and everything that I've been presented is a little work of art in and of itself and then the different taste sensation. Not one dish tastes like the other. It's all very diverse.


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[Assistant] Living on the water is incredible. It's a dream come true for me.


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[Assistant] You can connect to the entire infrastructure system.


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[Assistant] And buildings keep getting taller, but as a living space water is still largely untapped.


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[Assistant] Well, now I guess the March family are all together again.


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[Assistant] I call this splendid. I do. Really.


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[Assistant] And took me to quite another part of the house. The passage was a long one.


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[Assistant] the opposite side of which was formed by a detached dwelling house


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[Assistant] And into a gloomy room with a low ceiling on the ground floor at the back. There was some company in the room, and Estella said to me if she joined it.


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[Assistant] There being the window, I crossed to it and stood there, in a very uncomfortable state of mind, looking out. It opened to the ground, and looked into a most miserable corner of the neglected garden, upon a rank ruin of cabbage stalks.


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[Assistant] And one box tree that had been clipped round long ago, like a pudding.


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[Assistant] There had been some light snow overnight, and it lay nowhere else to my knowledge.


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[Assistant] But it had not quite melted from the cold shadow of this bit of garden, and a wind caught it up in little eddies, and sued at the window, as if it pulted me for coming there. I divined that my coming had stopped conversation in the room, and that its other occupants were looking at me.


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[Assistant] I could see nothing of the room except the shining of the fire in the window glass.


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[Assistant] But I stiffened in all my joints with the consciousness that I was under close inspection. There were three ladies in the room and one gentleman. Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs.


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[Assistant] But that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbergs, because the admission that he or she did know it would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.


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[Assistant] They all had a listless and dreary air of waiting somebody's pleasure, and the most talkative of the ladies had to speak quite rigidly to repress a yawn.


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[Assistant] This lady, whose name was Camilla, very much reminded me of my sister, with the difference that she was older.


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[Assistant] And as I found when I caught sight of her, of a blunter cast of features. Indeed, when I knew her better, I began to think it was a mercy she had any features at all. So very blank and high was the dead wall of her face.


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[Assistant] Said this lady, with an abruptness of manner, quite my sister's.


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[Assistant] It would be much more commendable to be somebody else's enemy, said the gentleman, far more natural.


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[Assistant] But I thought they seemed to think it rather a good idea too. The other lady who had not yet spoken said, gravely and emphatically, Very true. Poor soul.


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[Assistant] Combined with the echoing of some cry or call along the passage by which I had come interrupted the conversation and caused Estella to say to me


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[Assistant] Estella stopped all of a sudden, and facing round, said in her taunting manner, with her face quite close to mine,


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[Assistant] Well, Miss? I answered, almost falling over her, and checking myself.


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[Assistant] Not so much as you were last time, said I. Not so much so.


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[Assistant] She fired when she asked the last question, and she slapped my face with such force as she had when I answered it.


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[Assistant] Because I'll never cry for you again," said I.


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[Assistant] Which was, I suppose, as false a declaration as ever was made, for I was inwardly crying for her then, and I know what I know of the pain she cost me afterwards. We went on our way upstairs after this episode, and, as we were going up, we met a gentleman groping his way down. "'Fool have we here!' asked the gentleman, stopping and looking at me. "'A boy,' said Estella.


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[Assistant] He took my chin in his large hand and turned up my face to have a look at me by the light of the candle. He was prematurely bald on the top of his head, and had bushy black eyebrows that wouldn't lie down, but stood up bristling. His eyes were set very deep in his head, and were disagreeably sharp and suspicious.


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[Assistant] But it happened that I had this opportunity of observing him well. Boy of the neighborhood, eh? said he. Yes, sir, said I. How do you come here?


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[Assistant] I explained. Well, behave yourselves.


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[Assistant] I've a pretty large experience of boys and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind.


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[Assistant] Said he, biting the side of his great forefinger as he frowned at me, You behave yourself.


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[Assistant] With those words he released me, which I was glad of, for his hand smelled of scented soap, and went his way downstairs. I wondered whether he could be a doctor, but no, I thought, he couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner. There was not much time to consider the subject, for we were soon in Miss Havisham's room,


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[Assistant] Where she and everything else were just as I had left them. Estella left me standing near the door.


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[Assistant] And I stood there until Miss Havisham cast her eyes upon me from the dressing table. So, she said, without being startled or surprised, the days have worn away, have they? Yes, ma'am. Today is there, there, there. With the impatient movement of her fingers, I don't want to know. Are you ready to play? I was obliged to answer in some confusion.


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[Assistant] I don't think I am, Mom. Not at cards again, she demanded with a searching look.


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[Assistant] Since this house strikes you old and grave, boy," said Miss Hammersham impatiently, and you're unwilling to play, are you willing to work?


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[Assistant] I could answer this inquiry with a better heart than I had been able to find for the other question, and I said I was quite willing. Then go into that opposite room, said she, pointing at the door behind me with her withered hand, and wait there till I come. I crossed the staircase landing, and entered the room she indicated. From that room, too, the daylight was completely excluded.


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[Assistant] And it had an airless smell that was oppressive. A fire had been lately kindled in the damp old-fashioned grate, and it was more disposed to go out than to burn up. And the reluctant smoke which hung in the room seemed colder than the clearer air, like our own marsh-mist.


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[Assistant] Certain wintry branches of candles on the high chimney-piece faintly lighted the chamber, or it would be more expressive to say, faintly troubled its darkness. It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould and dropping to pieces.


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[Assistant] The most prominent object was a long table, with a tablecloth, spread on it, as if a feast had been in preparation, and the house and the clocks all stopped together.


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[Assistant] It was so heavily overhung with cob-wamps that its form was quite undistinguishable.


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[Assistant] And as I looked along the yellow expanse, out of which I remember it seeming to grow, like a black fungus,


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[Assistant] I saw speckled-legged spiders with blotchy bodies running home to it and running out from it, as if some circumstances of the greatest public importance had just transpired in the spider community.


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[Assistant] I heard the mice, too, rattling behind the panels, as if the same occurrence were important to their interests. But the black beetles took no notice of the agitation, and groped about the hearth in a ponderous elderly way, as if they were short-sighted, and hard of hearing, and not on terms with one another. These crawling things had fascinated my attention, and I was watching them from a distance, and Miss Havisham laid a hand upon my shoulder.


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[Assistant] In her other hand, she had a crutch-headed stick on which she leaned, and she looked like the witch of the place.


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[Assistant] This, said she, pointing to the long table with her stick, is where I will be laid when I am dead. They shall come and look at me here. With some vague misgiving.


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[Assistant] That you might get upon the table then and there, and die at once.


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[Assistant] The complete realization of the ghastly waxwork at the fair, I shrank under her touch. What do you think that is? She asked me again, pointing with her stick. That, where those cobwebs are.


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[Assistant] Come, come, come, walk me, walk me. I made out from this.


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[Assistant] Counted on my first impulse under that roof of Mr. Pumblechook's Shays Cart.


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[Assistant] She was not physically strong, and after a little time said, Slower. Still, we went at an impatient, fitful speed, and as we went, she twitched the hand upon my shoulder, and worked her mouth, and led me to believe that we were going fast, because her thoughts went fast. After a while she said, Call Estella. So I went out on the landing.


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[Assistant] If only Estella had come to be a spectator of our proceedings, I should have felt sufficiently discontented. But, as she brought with her the three ladies and the gentlemen whom I had seen below, I didn't know what to do. In my politeness I would have stopped. But Miss Havisham twitched my shoulder, and we posted on.


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[Assistant] Why, what's the matter with you? asked Miss Hammersham, with exceeding sharpness.


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[Assistant] Remarked Camilla, amiably repressing a sob, while a hitch came into her upper lip, and her tears overflowed.


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[Assistant] I understood to be the gentleman present, and him I understood to be Mr. Camilla.


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[Assistant] He came to the rescue at this point, and said in a consolatory and complimentary voice,


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[Assistant] Observe the grave lady, whose voice I had heard but once. That you think of any person as to make a great claim upon that person, my dear.


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[Assistant] Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face, that might have been made of walnut shells, and a large mouth like a cat's, without the whiskers, supported this position by saying,


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[Assistant] Thinking is easy enough," said the grave lady.


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[Assistant] Here, another burst of feeling. Miss Havisham and I had never stopped all this time, but kept going round and round of room, now brushing against the skirts of the visitors, now giving them the whole length of the dismal chamber.


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[Assistant] Really? I must say I should think not. Interposed the grave lady.


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[Assistant] Added, Miss Sarah Pocket, a blandly vicious personage.


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[Assistant] Here Camilla put her hand to her throat, and began to be quite chemical, as to the formation of new combinations there. When this same Matthew was mentioned, Miss Havisham stopped me.


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[Assistant] And herself. And stood looking at the speaker.


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[Assistant] This change had a great influence in bringing Camilla's chemistry to a sudden end. Matthew will come and see me at last, said Miss Habersham, sternly, when I am laid on that table. That will be his place there, striking the table with her stick, at my head. And yours will be there.


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[Assistant] And your husbands, there. And Sarah Pockets, there. And Georgianas, there.


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[Assistant] Now you all know where to take your stations when you come to feast upon me, and now go.' At the mention of each name, she had struck the table with her stick in a new place. She now said, Walk me, walk me, and we went on again.


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[Assistant] Mr. Camilla interposing, as Mrs. Camilla laid her hand upon her heaving bosom. That lady assumed an unnatural fortitude of manner.


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[Assistant] Which are supposed to be expressive of an intention to drop and choke when out of view. And kissing her hand to Miss Havisham was escorted forth.


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[Assistant] Sarah Pocket and Georgiana contended who should remain last.


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[Assistant] And with a smile of forgiving pity on her walnut-shell countenance for the weakness of the rest. While Estella was away lighting them down, Miss Havisham still walked with her hand on my shoulder, but more and more slowly. At last she stopped before the fire, and said, after muttering and looking at it some seconds, This is my birthday, Pip. I was going to wish her many happy returns, when she lifted her stick


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[Assistant] I don't suffer those who are here just now, or anyone to speak of it. They come here on the day, but they dare not refer to it. Of course I made no further effort to refer to it.


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[Assistant] On this day of the year, long before you were born, this heap of decay


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[Assistant] Stabbing with her crutched stick at the pile of cobwebs on the table, but not touching it, was brought here. It and I have worn away together. The mice have gnawed at it.


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[Assistant] And sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me. She held ahead of her stick against her heart, as she stood looking at the table. She in her once white dress, all yellow and withered, the once white cloth all yellow and withered, everything around in a state to crumble under a touch. When the ruin is complete, said she, with a ghastly look,


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[Assistant] And when they lay me dead, in my bride's dress on the bride's table, which shall be done, and which will be the finished curse upon him, so much the better if it is done on this day.


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[Assistant] She stood looking at the table, as if she stood looking at her own figure lying there. I remained quiet. Estella returned, and she too remained quiet.


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[Assistant] Not coming out of a distraught state by degrees, but in an instant, Miss Havisham said,


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[Assistant] Let me see you two play cards. Why have you not begun? With that, we returned to her room, and sat down as before.


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[Assistant] I was beggared as before, and again as before, as Havisham watched us all the time, directed my attention to Estella's beauty, and made me notice it the more, by trying her jewels on Estella's breast and hair.


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[Assistant] Estella, for her part, likewise treated me as before, except that she did not condescend to speak. When we had played some half-dozen games, a day was appointed for my return.


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[Assistant] Whether a gate in that garden wall, which I had scrambled up to peep over on the last occasion, was, on that last occasion, open or shut. Enough that I saw no gate then, and that I saw one now. As it stood open, and as I knew that Estella had let the visitors out, for she had returned with the keys in her hand, I strolled into the garden, and strolled all over it. It was quite a wilderness.


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[Assistant] Which seemed in their decline to have produced a spontaneous growth of weak attempts at pieces of old hats and boots.


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[Assistant] And a green house with nothing in it but a fallen down grapevine and some bottles, I found myself in the dismal corner upon which I had looked out of the window. Never questioning for a moment that the house was now empty, I looked in at another window, and found myself, to my great surprise, exchanging a broad stare with a pale young gentleman with red eyelids and light hair. This pale young gentleman quickly disappeared, and reappeared beside me.


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[Assistant] He had been at his books when I had found myself staring at him, and I now saw that he was inky.


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[Assistant] Hello, being a general observation, which I had usually observed to be best answered by itself, I said, Hello, politely omitting young fellow.


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[Assistant] Said the pale young gentleman. What could I do but follow him? I've often asked myself the question since. But what else could I do? His manner was so final, and I was so astonished, that I followed where he led, as if I had been under a spell. Stop a minute, though, he said, wheeling round before we had gone many paces. I ought to give you a reason for fighting, too.


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[Assistant] In a most irritating manner he instantly slapped his hands against one another, daintily flung one of his legs up behind him, pulled my hair, slapped his hands again, dipped his head and buttered it into my stomach. The bull-like proceeding last mentioned.


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[Assistant] Besides that it was unquestionably to be regarded in the light of liberty.


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[Assistant] And began dancing backwards and forwards in a manner quite unparalleled with my limited experience. "'Laws of the game,' said he. Here he skipped from his left leg on to his right. "'Regular rules.' Here he skipped from his right leg on to his left.


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[Assistant] Here he dodged backwards and forwards, and did all sorts of things while I looked helplessly at him. I was secretly afraid of him when I saw him so dexterous, but I felt morally and physically convinced.


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[Assistant] And that I had a right to consider it irrelevant when so obtuded on my attention. Therefore I followed him without a word to a retired nook of the garden, formed by the junction of two walls and screened by some rubbish. On his asking me if I was satisfied with the ground, and on my replying yes, he begged my leave to absent himself for a moment.


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[Assistant] He said, pacing these against the wall, and then fell to pulling off, not only his jacket and waistcoat, but his shirt too, in a manner at once light-hearted, businesslike, and bloodthirsty. Although he did not look very healthy, having pimples on his face, and a breaking out at his mouth, these dreadful preparations quite appalled me. I judged him to be about my own age, but he was much taller, and he had a way of spinning himself about that was full of appearance.


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[Assistant] And eyeing my anatomy as if he were minutely choosing his bone. I never have been so surprised in my life, as I was when I let out the first blow and saw him lying on his back, looking up at me with a bloody nose and his face exceedingly foreshortened. But he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity, began squaring again.


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[Assistant] The second greatest surprise I have ever had in my life was seeing him on his back again, looking up at me out of a black eye. His spirit inspired me with great respect. He seemed to have no strength, and he never once hit me hard, and he was always knocked down, but he would be up again in a moment, sponging himself, or drinking out of the water bottle,


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[Assistant] And then came at me with an air and a show that made me believe he really was going to do for me at last. He got heavily bruised, for I am sorry to record that the more I hit him, the harder I hit him. But he came up again, and again, and again, until at last he got a bad fall with the back of his head against the wall. Even after that crisis in our affairs, he got up and turned round and round, confusedly a few times, not knowing where I was,


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[Assistant] I go so far as to hope that I regarded myself while dressing as a species of savage young wolf, or other wild beast.


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[Assistant] When I got into the courtyard, I found Estella waiting with the keys. But she neither asked me where I had been, nor why I had kept her waiting. And there was a bright flush upon her face, as though something had happened to delight her. Instead of going straight to the gate, too, she stepped back into the passage, and beckoned me.


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[Assistant] I kissed her cheek as she turned it to me. I think I would have gone through a great deal to kiss her cheek.


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[Assistant] But I felt that the kiss was given to the coarse common boy, as a piece of money might have been, and that it was worth nothing.


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[Assistant] What with the birthday visitors, and what with the cards, and what with the fight, my stay had lasted so long, that when I neared home, the light on the spit of sand off the point and the marshes, was gleaming against a black night sky.


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[Assistant] And Joe's fairness was flinging a path of fire across the road.


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[Assistant] Now, which two children would like to go and stay with dear, kind Mrs. Barrington?


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[Assistant] First mariner of the mine's oceans. Midwife of my own genius. Come, sir.


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[Assistant] Does that make her a Democrat? No, but I am a Democrat. And a poet. And an admirer of the poems of Citizen Coleridge.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's good to see you! I came as soon as I could. I read about this rural utopia of yours. It was a revelation to me. You're the brother? This is your sister? Yes. Indeed, this is Dorothy. Dorothy. Dorothy!


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[Assistant] Look Dorothy, here's Sam's volume. Poems by S.T. Coleridge.


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[Assistant] Very handsome. I like this colour. I like the lettering.


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[Assistant] Why should not poetry be simple too? Plain like the food we eat so that any man, the simplest might understand it. Would not that be democratic?


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[Assistant] Well, there is even soup, Dorothy. This is wonderful, Sarah.


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[Assistant] Doesn't taste bitter to me. But then I have no sense of taste.


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[Assistant] 13, 14, why do you cling to them so?


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[Assistant] The world has changed Sam. We are making new poetry for a new world. Felwell's old politics cling like barnacles to our new ship.


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[Assistant] I can't ask him. Then there is no point in my staying here any longer.


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[Assistant] One morn, we walked out on our dry walk. Our quiet house in full view.


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[Assistant] And held our intermittent talk as we were wont to do.


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[Assistant] Without him here to inspire me, it's all just so much geography.


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[Assistant] In Sam's house that night. It isn't true that we wrote Cain. He wrote it. I wrote nothing. The page glared at me. I know soon I picked up the pen and I was sweating. Why could I not write, Dorothy? Why could I not write?


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[Assistant] Elvers, yes. They're sold to make Elver cheese, but the whole eel fetches a better price.


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[Assistant] Sam, albatrosses have nothing to do with eel fishing. This is another distraction.


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[Assistant] If the ancient mariner has simply killed a bird, why is he punished so severely? Why do all the other crew members have to die? It's just a bird after all.


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[Assistant] I have felt a presence that uplifts me with the joy of elevated thoughts.


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[Assistant] Deeper. Deeper, deeply interfused.


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[Assistant] A sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused.


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[Assistant] And in thy voice I catch the language of my former heart and read my former pleasures in the shooting lights of thy wild eyes.


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[Assistant] Oh, yet a little while, may I behold in thee what I was once, my dear, dear sister.


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[Assistant] For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing, often times, the still sad music of humanity.


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[Assistant] Well, perhaps Sam's next poem will be better even than the mariner. Perhaps the second volume should be written entirely by Sam.


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[Assistant] We should go, Dorothy. We should return to the happy land of our childhood.


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[Assistant] Yes, of course leave him behind. What of it? He is married. He has his wife, his child, his baby.


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[Assistant] Sure you. Sam, this is Mary. My future bride.


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[Assistant] I think it would be best if you were to tell him. I intend to work late and to sleep late.


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[Assistant] It has been decided that the tone of Kubla Khan is at odds with the rest of the volume.


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[Assistant] Its presence would be an intercalation of heterogeneous matter. You are requested, therefore, to remove it.


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[Assistant] I will myself bear the expense involved in resetting the type.


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[Assistant] You are still regarded as a great critic. The first to explain my own poetry.


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[Assistant] I was told you were very fine looking. Indeed, you're quite plain. Too pale. Too scrawny.


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[Assistant] God! Is this the very one from Frost at Midnight?


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[Assistant] There is power there, but it is buried in frills and flounces. These poems are about our life.


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[Assistant] No, not here. You cannot find truth by looking it up in a book. You must follow it up the hill track to the high and lonely places.


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[Assistant] Taste and smell and hearing and sight, not from our memory.