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Quotes collected by Ace Hoffman:
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“Nuclear war must be the most carefully avoided topic of general significance in the contemporary world. People are not curious about the details.” — Paul Brians (author; quote is from: Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction)
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“When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” — Sinclair Lewis (first American Nobel Prize winner in Literature, 2.7.1885 – 1.10.1951)
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“There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.” — Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa, 1992)
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“Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.” — Sun Tzu (Chinese general b.500 BC)
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“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” — Margaret Atwood (Canadian poet/novelest/environmentalist/etc.)
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“The sun shows up every day and produces ridiculous amounts of power.” — Elon Musk (5.1.2015)
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“The most intolerable reactor of all may be one which comes successfully to the end of its planned life having produced mountains of radioactive waste for which there is no disposal safe from earthquake damage or sabotage.” — A. Stanley Thompson (a pioneer nuclear physicist who later realized the whole situation)
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“Any dose is an overdose.” — Dr. John W. Gofman (another pioneer nuclear physicist who saw the light (9.21.1918 – 8.15.2007)
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“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” — Octavia Butler (science fiction writer, 7.22.1947 – 2.24.2006)
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“If you want real welfare reform, you focus on a good education, good health care, and a good job.
If you want to reduce poverty, you focus on a good education, good healthcare, and a good job.
If you want a stable middle class, you focus on a good education, good health care, and a good job.
If you want to have citizens who can participate in democracy, you focus on a good education, good health care, and a good job.
And if you want to end the violence, you could build a million new prisons and you could fill them up, but you never end this cycle of violence unless you invest in the health and the skill and the intellect and the character of our children. You focus on a good education, good health care and a good job.
And other than that, I don’t feel strongly about anything.”
— Paul Wellstone (US Senator, D-Minnesota, 7.21.1944 – 10.25.2002)
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“There are no warlike peoples – just warlike leaders.” — Ralph Bunche (8.7.1903 – 12.9.1971)
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In the execution room, Troy [Davis] used his last words to proclaim his innocence one final time. He then made a call for his movement — all of our movement — to bring about [an] end of the death penalty for good. And then, in his final breath, he asked God’s mercy upon those about to kill him.
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“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” — Thomas Jefferson
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“Officials from the San Onofre nuclear reactor said the warning siren that went off yesterday was just a malfunction and no one should worry. Hey, I worry, if they can’t even get the siren to work right, what the hell are they doing with the reactor??” Jay Leno 1/20/10