It wasn't I who thought that. It was a very backward committee.
6 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - Peace Mediator classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:17:49 in the radio play.
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- He put in five years in the colonies of Indonesia, Malaya, and Burma, and wrote in his thesis...
- A very good thesis. It deserves the award you won for it.
- Coming from one who didn't think my study worth anything, I appreciate that.
- It wasn't I who thought that. It was a very backward committee.
- This has brought them forward out of the dark ages.
- Alone in Jerusalem, wondering whether he should accept the assignment from the United Nations...
- But he still had wanted to return to his own way of learning his science... by practice.
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