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"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored." »Albert Einstein
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"I do not like this word bomb. It is not a bomb it is a device which is exploding." »Jacques LeBlanc
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"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding." »Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons
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"The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb." »Benny Hill
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"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts." »Omar Bradley
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"We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy)" »Albert Einstein
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"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one." »Albert Einstein
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"The President can bomb anybody he likes." »Richard Nixon, Nixon
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"The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off." »Anonymous
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"Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do." »Albert Einstein
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"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb." »Spiro T. Agnew
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"To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self" »Christa Wolf
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"The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)" »Ronald Reagan
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"The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion." »The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
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"The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door." »Anonymous
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"I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces." »Joseph T. Chew
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"In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives." »Joesph Heller, Catch-22
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