"The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many people, even far-reaching disarmament proposals would leave us implicated in plans for unprecedented slaughter of innocent people. The sole measure that can free us from this burden is abolition."

-- Jonathan Schell

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“To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.”
“What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.”
“I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem.”
“Everyone you meet in your life - even total strangers - are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.”
“To master an actual technique, mental culture should come first. Acquiring a technique requires a careful, modest, non-mean, free and attentive mind.Â In other words aÂ playerÂ should do his utmost and nothing less.”
“The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.”

Source : Francis ATTERBURY (Bishop of Rochester.) (1740). “Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions”, p.67
“Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.”

Source : Ford Madox Ford (2003). “The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion”, p.178, Broadview Press
“I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.”

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