"But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction."

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Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris

Joseph Rotblat

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“I was proud of myself coming down that back-nine”
“The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.”
“It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.”
“I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That's about it. The rest I'm really flexible on.”
“Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Unfortunately, the business is such that, as far as studios are concerned, they judge one quote-unquote black movie on how other â€˜blackâ€™ movies have done, even if they have nothing to do with each other Â Itâ€™s too bad we canâ€™t do well on our own merit when it comes to the studios. They donâ€™t like to take risks and, unfortunately, weâ€™re still considered a huge risk, even though I donâ€™t think we are.”

Source : "Black Actors’ Roles Are No Longer ‘Just The Black Best Friend Or The Crackhead’" by Danielle Cadet, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2014.
“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.”
“Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.”

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