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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.


We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894)

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