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"ref": "2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845",
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"ref": "1741 July 8, Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God",
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"text": "something divinely beautiful […] that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life",
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