"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

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"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

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Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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