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"The storm clouds are gathering over the European scene. Our defences have been neglected. Danger is in the air...yes, I say in the air. The mighty discontented nations are reaching out with the strong…"

"Now, in the thermonuclear age, any misjudgment on either side about the intentions of the other could rain more devastation in several hours than has been wrought in all the wars of human history. The…"

"We resolved to end our poison-enquiries by tasting the venomous liquor. According, having diluted a quantity of it, with a very little warm water, several of us ventured to put some of it upon the tip…"

"I make no vows. I take my chance. ... It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I…"

"A man who possesses common sense and the use of reason must not expect to learn from treatises or lectures on textual criticism anything that he could not, with leisure and industry, find out for hims…"

"The battle of the South Atlantic was not won by ignoring the dangers or denying the risks. It was achieved by men and women who had no illusions about the difficulties. We faced them squarely and we w…"

"The ego … reduces the present to a means to an end."

"If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'."

"It must be borne in mind that the gestation of a single organism is the work of but a few days, weeks, or months, but the gestation of a whole creation is a matter probably involving enormous spaces o…"

"Is it any wonder, therefore, that the young, accustomed to such an environment, grow up to consider life itself a game, in which they are to strive to outwit those about them? Is it any wonder that yo…"

"To define what we are is to reduce and distort what we are: to say that we are nothing but our desires or nothing but our self-interest is to misrepresent us."

"Henry Adams, Globe Trotter in Space and Time"

"The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that t…"

"What is Europe doing? It takes more than six months to organize a summit alone. By that time, one million new migrants have arrived. This is why, for instance, some countries along the Balkans route l…"

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion... Politicians and taxpayers have assumed that a rising total in the number of civil servants must reflect a growing volume of work to …"

"Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards."

"I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan."

"A moment of silence please for those that never get the chance"

"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts …"

"She told him she made a rule of never marrying bankers. The next day he sent flowers, and a note saying that he’d relinquished his profession."