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“Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.”
Source : "New world disorder" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006. 
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“The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.”
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“Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.”
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“There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.”
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“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
Source : Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.
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“Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.”
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“In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the use of such terminology shows my own intellectual disposition and biases.”
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“I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.”
