Carolina QuotesEven the most "Rational" people — the ones who claimed not to have a religion — were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal.
Orson Scott Card Connected to the Carolinas
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- Lovelock (1994)
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- 1994
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