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At that, the man had shrugged and walked away. That’s when I started to understand that our goal of establishing loyalty to a national government was possibly in trouble.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":97,"quote_text":98,"author_id":5,"source_id":42,"has_image":43,"author":99,"source":100,"quote_tag":101,"commentary":9},3507052,"When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we’re lost.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":103,"totalPages":104,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":15},1,9]