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We're growing a strange crop of agnostics this year.

— E. K. Hornbeck  ·  Inherit the Wind

Five seedlings growing in cracked eggshells, the last leaning sideways beneath a small paper crown.
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The speaker sardonically treats agnosticism as an odd harvest, as if doubt were something sown and coming up in unusual numbers this year. The remark carries a dry, mocking edge, presenting religious uncertainty as a curious growth worth remarking on.

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