"I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything."

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Source : "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1995.

Chester W. Nimitz

#Loss Quotes #Unnecessary Quotes #Enough Quotes

“There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian”
“If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.”
“A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.”
“I love synthesizers and I love electronic music and I love the avant garde and I always want to try and have some kind of element of that in the music. So once the music is put down and recorded, that's when I start to tinker with it using synths.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.”
“The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria.”

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 3, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“I'm pretty klutzy and I've always been, so I have to own up to it. It's part of my charm!”

Source : "Erica Durance: The 'Smallville' Death Will Break Your Heart". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 23, 2009.

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