"Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way to get rid of this danger is to abolish all nuclear weapons"

-- Tadatoshi Akiba

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“I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical”
“Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.”

Source : William John Locke (1922). “A Christmas Mystery: The Story of Three Wise Men”, p.7, Library of Alexandria
“The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.”
“If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.46, Hachette UK
“When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.”
“Television is ***** amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business.”
“In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the mind. Only we are not aware of it, because we begin by reasoning before we know or say that we are reasoning, just as we begin by speaking before we observe that we are speaking, and just as we begin by seeing and hearing before we know what we see or what we hear.”
“And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.”

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