"From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process."

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Source : Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

Herman Kahn

#War Quotes #Order Quotes #Ice Quotes

“I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count”

Source : Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.110, Penguin
“Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.”
“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.”

Source : James MacGregor Burns (1978). “Leadership”, Harpercollins
“Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine”
“I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.”
“The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”
“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.”
“The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.”

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