"It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them."

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Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

Alva Myrdal

#Country Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.”
“There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ralph de Bricassart". "There are no ambitions noble", www.imdb.com. 1983.
“Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Although working with Amitabh Bacchan was a different experience altogether, I just enjoyed it.”
“Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and billions of kinds of intelligent beings. As a theologian, I would say that the proposed search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is also a search of knowing and understanding God through his works - especially those works that most reflect Him. Finding others than ourselves would mean knowing Him better.”
“If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.”
“Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.”
“Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.”

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