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-- Shirley Temple Black There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
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