"Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment."

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Source : David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

David Lange

#Mean Quotes #Eye Quotes #Deployment Quotes

“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mark Watney". "The Martian", www.imdb.com. 2015.
“I don't write because I think I have anything particularly interesting to say. I write because I love writing more than any other work I've done. I do think about entertaining the reader to the extent that I try always to write a book that I myself would want to read, but I don't think it's up for me to decide if what I've written is interesting to others. That is entirely up to others.”
“Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. â€œFocus on your potential instead of your limitations.”
“Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.”
“If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.”
“I don't know how, but I know Who”
“Any given moment contains unlimited futures that can become real. The reality that occurs is the one you pay attention to.”

Source : Penney Peirce, Michael Bernard Beckwith (2011). “Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

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