"This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It provides an overwhelming inducement for the avoidance of war. It emphasizes the crisis we face in international matters and strengthens the conviction that adequate safeguards for peace must be found."

-- Leslie Groves

#War Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Adequate Quotes

“The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.”
“Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.”
“Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons”
“So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.”

Source : Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1676). “The Vanity of Arts and Sciences”, p.109
“I don't tend to like race jokes. I don't like Jew jokes and black jokes, and they make me very uncomfortable, probably because I'm both. Well, I'm not black - but if I was then I could dance better.”
“The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud. It's a joke. In my case the problem is not that I don't question myself. It's just that I question other people even more.”
“I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone with a different point of view who has access to the media has a responsibility to use it.”
“I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.”

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