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If they don't do it, it's only because they don't benefit from it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. Why Don't We Remember Our Past Lives?","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-18","location":null,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/349/1923-04-18/p033","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA349/English/SOL2024/19230418p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Ja, weil die Tiere das, was sie fressen wollen, durch die Gewohnheit machen. Wenn also die Tiere etwas davon hätten, dann würden die Tiere das Opium fressen, das in den Pflanzen drinnen ist. 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