We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
– John Stuart Mill
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- The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling settling dust of death and opens the way to new life. – Billy Graham
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