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" Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. "

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" If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. "

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" I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. "

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" What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. "

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