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Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
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Elie Wiesel, as quoted in Spirituality and Liberation : Overcoming the Great Fallacy (1988) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 136

 

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