"Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers."

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John Charles Polanyi

#Bombers Quotes #Nuclear Quotes #Weapons Quotes

“Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.”
“I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.”
“I looked at him like he was an idiot, but he didnâ€™t notice. Or maybe he got it so often, he thought that was how people looked at him.”
“In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?”
“I'm John Morrison, and if God have 2 sons i would be the better looking one.”
“Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.”
“I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.”

Source : "Carol Anshaw And Stephen McCauley Discuss Gay Literature". Interview with Stephen McCauley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.
“Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.”

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