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by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

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Voltaire

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

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