"The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use."

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Source : "The arms race: a programme for world disarmament" by Philip John Noel-Baker, (p. 297), 1960.

Georgy Zhukov

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“And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.”

Source : Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”
“Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.”

Source : Interview with ESPN, www.espn.com.
“I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.”
“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of oneâ€™s own destruction, has become a â€œbiologicalâ€ need.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (1969). “An Essay on Liberation”, Boston : Beacon Press
“As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity”

Source : Philippa Perry, The School of Life (2012). “How to Stay Sane”, p.75, Pan Macmillan
“I'm not just a fan of the really restored ones, the shiny ones. But I like the working man's cars.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“Mahoney: You have to live. Mr. Magorium: Darlin'...I have.”
“The land of the free - we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we are the most un-free society, in terms of institutions of the deprivation of liberty, of incarceration. The incidents of incarceration is higher in the United States than elsewhere in the world.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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