“Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

"Sapolsky on Religion", Human Behavioral Biology 150/250 (Spring 2002) http://blip.tv/file/2204956/

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