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In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of

a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.
Herman Kahn

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
Augustine Birrell

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.
Lucy Stone

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.
David Selby

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
Natan Sharansky

Political courage is not political suicide.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
Kenneth Grahame

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Jacob Riis

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther

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