We do not need magic or messiahs to help us live decently, to provide an ethical code. |
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On the political front, these leaders were akin to messiahs in their respective parties and countries. |
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As is the way with most messiahs, only the poor, the insane and the very young recognize his divinity. |
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Infanticide rates have dropped dramatically in areas where the messiahs operate, but many mothers still give their girl babies away. |
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That these messiahs of the politics of hate, wrenching apart the fabric of secular India do not represent the Hindu majority. |
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By definition, the traditional storytellers were not leaders, much less messiahs. |
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A few self-prophesied messiahs of the Kannada film industry are dictating terms to cinegoers. |
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Such morbid symptoms include false messiahs, doomsday predictions, UFO sightings, pyramid schemes, and so on. |
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I've seen leadership schools set out on the fringes, including one in an outpost of Jerusalem that teaches would-be messiahs to lead in the coming apocalypse. |
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But dreams, after all, are dreams, and as we are busy producing double-faced politicians, there are no messiahs around to translate dreams into realities. |
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Why then are these messiahs of the modern era being persecuted? |
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Politicians who do not trim tend not to be messiahs but very naughty boys. |
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