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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.

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I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

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The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.

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As does every young man studying philosophy, I naturally asked myself questions about the truth of all this, and about the meaning of freedom, predestination, and liberty of choice and so on. But to have asked questions of yourself about it, I think is not too important. Let's say - I remain - I remained a believer.

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Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

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I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.

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You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

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I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most personal thing of all and I don't think it concerns too many people.

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