"Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics."

Politics, Fear, Truth, Life

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"Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics."

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"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."

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"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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