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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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"The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one."

"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go."

"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."

"People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know."

"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."
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