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"Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier."
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"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"
"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
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"I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead."
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