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" Avarice, the spur of industry. "

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Greatest Number

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" It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood. "

Working Together

" The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. "

" Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. "

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" The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. "