"I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut."

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"I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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