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  "text": "All religions are ultimately cargo cults.\n\nAdherents perform required rituals, follow\n\nspecific rules, and expect to be supernaturally\n\ngifted with desired rewards—long life,\n\nhonor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth,\n\nvictory over opponents, immortality after\n\ndeath, any desired rewards.",
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      "text": "Consider—\n\nWe are born\n\nNot with purpose,\n\nBut with potential.",
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      "text": "Beware:\n\nIgnorance\n\nProtects itself\n\nIgnorance\n\nPromotes suspicion.\n\nSuspicion\n\nEngenders fear.\n\nFear quails,\n\nIrrational and blind,\n\nOr fear looms,\n\nDefiant and closed.\n\nBlind, closed,\n\nSuspicious, afraid,\n\nIgnorance\n\nProtects itself,\n\nAnd protected,\n\nIgnorance grows.",
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      "text": "“I’m not a demagogue.”\n\n“That’s too bad. That leaves the field to people who are demagogues—to the Jarrets of the world. And there have always been Jarrets. Probably there always will be.”",
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