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If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.
Approximate author period: c. 1965 AD · modern
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- Carl Sagan
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- Approximate author period: c. 1965 AD · modern
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