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[the Church's] Job Is To Provide Permanent Solace And Spiritual Leadership To The People As A Whole, Whatever Their Government At The Moment, So Long As It Stays Within The Bounds Of Moral Decency.

When I Was A Child In The Navy During World War Ii, I Was Perennially Grateful To The Armed Services Libraries For Having On Hand A Good Supply Of Those Pocket Books, Which Were So Common In That Period. I Must Have Read A Couple Hundred Of Them, And They Did A Lot To Save My Sanity.

We Should Be Most Careful About Retreating From The Specific Challenge Of Our Age. We Should Be Reluctant To Turn Our Back Upon The Frontier Of This Epoch... We Cannot Be Indifferent To Space, Because The Grand Slow March Of Our Intelligence Has Brought Us, In Our Generation, To A Point From Which We Can Explore And Understand And Utilize It. To Turn Back Now Would Be To Deny Our History, Our Capabilities.

I Was Surprised When Shortly After New Year's Day Of 1983, The Governor Of Texas Summoned Me To His Office, Because I Hadn't Been Aware That He Knew I Was In Town.

I'm Not A Very Good Writer, But I'm An Excellent Rewriter.