"The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation."

-- Stewart Udall

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“There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and hide. The first method is heart-breaking, but sure. The second cannot be relied upon because of the uncomfortable way Disgrace has of turning up at your heels.”
“I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.”
“I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.”
“I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.”
“Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?”
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.”
“If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.”

Source : "The Task of Social Hygiene". Book by Havelock Ellis, ch. 1, 1912.

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