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Of the many people's of the earth, the Romans may have had the most boring religion of all. ...basically a businessman's religion of contractual obligations.

— Thomas Cahill Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

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The terms of this new religion, though based on Hebrew models, were Greek terms.

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Human beings never know more than a part, as "through a glass darkly"; and all knowledge comes to us in pieces.

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Ireland is unique in religious history for being the only land into which Christianity was introduced without bloodshed.

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If we are to be saved, it will not be by Romans but by saints.

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For me, the historian's principal task should be to raise the dead to life.

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