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"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."

Reinhold Niebuhr, American Theologian

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"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."

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