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You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.


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Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.



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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.



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More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.





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