Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
-- J Robert Oppenheimer to Edward R. Murrow, CBS TV, January 4, 195...
The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used--we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immmorality.
-- Linus Pauling, _No More War_ (1958) US scienti...
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
-- H G Wells (1866-1946), The _Tribune_, London English novelist, historia...
Procrastination is the thief of time... -- Edward Young
Quae dant, quaeque negant, gaudent tamen esse rogatae.
[Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.]...
Ovid (43 BC -18 AD), _The Art of Love_, Book 1, 345
Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having.
-- C Nestell Bovee, _Thoughts, Feelings, and Fancies_ (1857)...
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actio
desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. -- Pascal (1623-1662)...
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last.
While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice....
Some words are like rays of sunshine, others like barbed arrows or the bite of a serpent.
And if hard words cut so deep, how much pleasure can kind ones give? -- Sir John Lubbock...

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