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> [Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort of perverse glee at the rigors of our Catholicism. My oldest sister, Mary, was so convinced of the church's omnipotence that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-j-dubner/like-the-graduates-of-some-notorious-boot-camp-my-brothers-and/)

[Stephen J. Dubner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-j-dubner/)

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> [“Mary was convinced that because of some sin she had unwittingly committed in her life, she was mated with the devil himself. She really believed this because her husband told her so. "I am the devil himself," he told her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/betty-smith/mary-was-convinced-that-because-of-some-sin-she-had-unwittingly/)

[Betty Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/betty-smith/)

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