"Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror."

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Source : "A Generation in Search of a Future". George Wald's speech at an anti-war teach-in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 4, 1969); published in Chicago Journalism Review by Ron Dorfman, May 1969.

George Wald

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“When you struggle against this moment, you're actually struggling against the entire universe. Instead, you can make the decision that today you will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. This means that your acceptance of this moment is total and complete. You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment. This is important to understand. You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.”
“I've never wanted to be a star, never.”

Source : "Renewed Love for Symbol of New Wave" by Maia de la Baume, www.nytimes.com. January 1, 2013.
“Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing ones guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational.”
“People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.”
“Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.”
“Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.”

Source : 'The Candidate' (1764) l. 57
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
“Hope is a song in a weary throat.”

Source : Pauli Murray (1970). “Dark testament: and other poems”

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