"The most powerful moral influence is example."
"I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations."
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Source: Huston Smith: Rock star of religions turns 90 by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. May 21, 2009.
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