"The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them."
"Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst."
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Source: Genesis. Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.
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