A Quote by Susan Jacoby

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

Susan Jacoby

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Susan Jacoby
American - Author
Born: June 4, 1945

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