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“When I came out as a bright at this wonderful conference of high-school kids up in Seattle, the effect was electrifying. Many of them came up to me afterwards and said, ‘Thank you! Thank you! I have never heard an adult say that before.'”

Philosopher Daniel Dennett on what it means to be a “bright”, his term for atheists and agnostics (The Observer, London, 12 March)

“I believe this to be a sign from God. Even the monk’s soft parts are intact.”

Bishop Nikolaos of Lamia, Greece, on the body of a Greek Orthodox monk that was exhumed, allegedly…

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