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"I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln."
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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

"What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?"

"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

"I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."

"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know."


"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."


"I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old."


"The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea."


"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."


"Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it."


"I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good."


"The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try."
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