"It's only merit was in being the first……" — Thomas Jefferson

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• Since Christ Himself said in reference to the bread: "This is My Body," who will dare remain hesitant? And since… — Cyril of Jerusalem
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• It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. — Edgar Allan Poe
• Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without… — Christopher Hitchens

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