"It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war."

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Source : "Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism". Book by Robert Jay Lifton and Richard A. Falk, p. 224, 1992.

Leonid Brezhnev

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“Sean Chen has been an audience favorite from the early rounds. With his floppy hair and outstanding stage presence combined with an extraordinary technique and musicianship, this is little wonder.”
“One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.”

Source : Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman (1982). “Architettura Della Città”, p.130, MIT Press
“Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.”

Source : Claude Adrien Helvétius (1777). “A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...”, p.43
“These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.”
“What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.1437, e-artnow
“The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.”
“Why must I cling to the customs and practices of a particular country forever, just because I happened to be born there? What does it matter if its distinctiveness is lost? Need we be so attached to it? What's the harm if everyone on earth shares the same thoughts and feelings, if they stand under a single banner of laws and regulations? What if we can't be recognized as Indians any more? Where's the harm in that? No one can object if we declare ourselves to be citizens of the world. Is that any less glorious?”
“Given the choice, I would spend my money on accessories.”

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