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Universities are diagnosed as temples for comfortable priests; true knowledge is found in the ordinary, mundane world with suffering people.
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Ordinary people
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Homer is exceptional because there was no king to pay him; he had to appeal directly to ordinary poor people.
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He presents his wife as central to his work because she helps him understand ordinary people's thinking, counterbalancing his rational and narrow student-formed worldview.
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Jiang says the meritocratic ruling class lives in a social bubble that prevents real empathy for ordinary people and turns poverty into moral contempt.
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"The most important person in my life, of course, is my wife. She completes me. We have two children together. We're hoping to have..."
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"...than I am. And so she's able to tell me how ordinary people think. And that's really helped me in the work I do."
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"...and, and so they're unable to empathize with the suffering of ordinary people. They, they become disconnected with the ordinary people. They have actually,..."
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"...there's just this contempt. There's just this visual discontent for the ordinary people among the elite that drives a lot of their policies. Okay?..."
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"ox skins than on their honors and dignities I am too hot and scorched with thine own thought often is it ready to take..."
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"...can only be found in the everyday in the mundane with ordinary people that's where God is okay universities are constructed to be away..."
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"...to the people around him. Okay? He had to appeal to ordinary people. And so, the question then is, if you're a poet, how..."
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"...to throw myself into the world. I'm going to interact with ordinary people and do ordinary things, right? So I signed up for cooking..."
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"...in Europe. He wanted to write it in Tuscan so that ordinary people around him could access it. And as a result, Dante is..."
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"...they're strong, because they have real faith. We're not. We're just ordinary people. So we're cattle, right? So we should criticize them."
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"...plant and animal is a shadow dimension a place invisible to ordinary people but visible to the shaman this is the realm of the..."
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"...that's meaningless that has actually no impact on the lives of ordinary people okay okay let's look at the military military so everyone believes..."
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