"Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing."

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Source : "Can Sanctions End Iran's Nuclear Ambitions?". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 21, 2011.

Stephen Walt

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“Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.”

Source : "Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics". Book by George F. Simmons, 1992.
“It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority.”

Source : Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”
“On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.”
“Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.”
“The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. The discovery of peculiar arts gives superiority to particular nations ... to subjugate other nations, who learn their arts, and ultimately adopt their manners;- so that in reality the origin as well as the progress and improvement of civil society is founded in mechanical and chemical inventions.”
“A lot of people sayinâ€™ ***** me. Problem is they be telling everybody but me.”
“I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.”
“I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.”

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