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Thought for the Day

Sunday 11 October 1998 23:02 BST
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"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it."

Thomas Carlyle,

Scottish essayist

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