"Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate us all. The risk was low and the test went off, but Rees wonders what the odds would have had to be to discourage the bomb makers."

-- Dennis Overbye

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“I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.”
“Everyone goes through their own journey. Sometimes things can get hurtful. But sometimes too much intrusion of privacy can get to you, but I know that this is something that you cannot avoid. You know, being a woman, there have to be lines drawn somewhere. But I am the kind who accepts that this is my journey and I have to go through some amount of hurt.”
“Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.”

Source : "Chinatown". www.imdb.com. 1974.
“"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."”
“We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.”
“My mom was very much like 'Love your body, love yourself, run around naked....' Whatever we wanted to do, it was very accepting.”

Source : "Tallulah Willis On What Demi Moore Taught Her About Body Image" by Sarah St. Lifer, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2012.
“It's a very nice thing to have a baby.”
“But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology and various Christian denominations and para-church organizations as special interest groups. The political engagement of the various Christian groups is certainly legal, but in ways that are undoubtedly unintended, it has also been counterproductive of the ends to which they aspire.”

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