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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. ”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“But everywhere the religious dance came before the religious hymn, and man was a ritualist before he could speak.”
― Heretics
― Heretics
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