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"I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure."
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Source: Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast, delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.
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