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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

— Heywood Broun

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Collected Edition of Heywood Broun, compiled by Heywood Hale Broun. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1941, [BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM page 26]

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