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> [“In those days, this was years for the sputnik thing, it was customary to downgrade the Russians' science. People who know something about those things didn't make that mistake. But at the level of Time magazine the joke was how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow-2/in-those-days-this-was-years-for-the-sputnik-thing-it-was-customary/)

[E.L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow-2/)

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