"We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it."

-- Albert Wohlstetter

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“The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.”
“Home is where you hange your memories. . . Home is where you begin again to dream again.”
“I'm very Canadian. I want everyone to love me, and I just get nervous.”
“Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.”
“I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.”
“Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.”
“I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.”
“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.”

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