"We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction."

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Source : "Challenge to the Cold War". Book by Dora Russell, Vol. 3, Ch. 14, 1985.

Dora Russell

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“[The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.”
“A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.”
“No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.”
“And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.”
“Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.”
“Science is about filling in the details.”
“I enjoy bringing humanity to complex characters.”

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