"What I do see, for instance, is that the French are not very happy with the ... I am happy but they are not and I understand why they are not happy. They still believe in some nuclear strategic formulas which they have inherited from General De Gaulle and they have started the process of rethinking, they haven't gone very far."

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Source : "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age". "Zero Hour", openvault.wgbh.org. 1987.

Helmut Schmidt

#Believe Quotes #Nuclear Quotes #Gone Quotes

“For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.”
“Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.”
“What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?”
“Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness”

Source : 1948 Paterson, bk.2,'Sunday in the Park',1.
“How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.”
“You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate.”

Source : "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. August 5, 2012.
“Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.”
“The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.”

Source : Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”

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