"I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country."

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Source : "Mohamed ElBaradei: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2011.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.”
“Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic, it would present a scene the most rugged, grand, and imposing. The very ribs of the solid earth, with the foundations of the sea, would be brought to light, and we should have presented to us at one view the empty cradle of the ocean ....”

Source : Matthew Fontaine Maury, United States Naval Observatory (1858). “Explanations and sailing directions to accompany the Wind and current charts: approved by Captain D. N. Ingraham, chief of the Bureau of ordnance and hydrography, and pub. by authority of Hon. Isaac Toucey, secretary of the Navy”, p.167
“I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.”
“I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.”
“Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.”
“You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.”
“I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.”
“In this busy modernized age, it's easy to be blind to the light all around us. You see, there truly are real angels living among us that look just like you and I. If you pay attention, you can spot one because they're quite easy to find. They're the souls with the eternally deep eyes that always act like something is broken inside, but fail to realize it's just their wings.”

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