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— Thomas Hardy"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
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If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.
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