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"Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue."
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"The objections to religion are of two sorts -- intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true, the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow."
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