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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.

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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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