. . . the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of … - Frances Wright

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A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

Frances Wright

. . . the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!. . . Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?

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