"As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others."

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Source : Mohamed ElBaradei (2011). “The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times”, p.187, Macmillan

Mohamed ElBaradei

#Long Quotes #Risk Quotes #Weapons Quotes

“It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.”
“Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.”

Source : Attributed in "On Being Blonde: Wit And Wisdom From The World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 78), 2004.
“This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.”
“But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.”
“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”

Source : "White Noise". Book by Don DeLillo, 1985.
“We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation”
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
“I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.”

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