"With this recognition of the finality of death, no one should willingly withhold acts that would bring benefits, joy or happiness to others."

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“Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.”

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“A precept claiming infallibility should certainly possess the universality of the law of gravitation and the perfection of the arithmetical table. If it fails to possess these undeviating qualities, its imperfection is self-evident and its value either greatly diminished or useless.”

“Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.”

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