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		<title>McLaughlin, Mignon -- The Neurotic&#8217;s Notebook, ch.  2 (1963)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We tell our children things which we know are not so, but which we wish were so.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We tell our children things which we know are not so, but which we wish were so.</p>
<br><b>Mignon McLaughlin</b> (1913-1983) American journalist and author<br><i>The Neurotic&#8217;s Notebook</i>, ch.  2 (1963) 
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		<title>Adams, John -- Letter (1816-12-27) to François Adriaan Van der Kemp</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?</p>
<br><b>John Adams</b> (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)<br>Letter (1816-12-27) to François Adriaan Van der Kemp 
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