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"Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness."

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We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

— James Martineau

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When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

— Karl Jaspers

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