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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and t

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"Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?"

- Mary Douglas

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This quote is written / told by Mary Douglas between March 25, 1921 and May 16, 2007. He/she was a famous Scientist from United Kingdom. The author also have 31 other quotes.

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