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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

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Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Beautiful Lust Religious
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Enough God Men Reveal

Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

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