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" Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. "
Elie Wiesel
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" There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. "
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