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" To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. "

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" Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible. "

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" My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. "

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