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“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

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“Creationists don't want equal time, … they want all the time there is.”

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“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

“The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.”

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#hope

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#mind

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