"I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science."

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Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris

Joseph Rotblat

#Effort Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.”

Source : Blanche Willis Howard (1900). “The Garden of Eden”
“White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.21, U of Nebraska Press
“I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.”
“One of ISIS' biggest propaganda coups was the beheadings of the aid workers and journalists. Is [Emni], the group that is exporting fighters overseas, also the one that was holding James Foley and John Cantlie and Kayla Mueller?”
“I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.”
“I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.”
“The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.”

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