"Those things that I must do I shall desire to do."

-- Walter Russell

“Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.”
“Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.”
“If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes”

Source : Edward Teller, Allen Brown, Jr. (1975). “The Legacy of Hiroshima”, Greenwood Press
“The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.”
“If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.”
“But as you say in English, c'est la vie!”
“One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour.”

Source : Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.433, Chicago Review Press
“The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose.”

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