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"We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction." »Dennis Kucinich
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"Emc (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc." »Albert Einstein
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"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept." »John W. Gardner
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"They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction." »Janet Reno, February 2, 1998
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"Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction." »Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention
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"I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say 'We've always done it that way,' my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours." »Grace Murray Hopper
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"The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass." »Margaret Cho
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"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor." »Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." »Henry David Thoreau
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"The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing." »William J. Broad
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"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." »Wernher von Braun
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"Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation." »Peter S. Prescott
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"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded." »Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin
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"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." »W. H. Auden
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"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth." »Denis Diderot
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"Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes." »Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1
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"The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people." »Claiborne Pell
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"The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical." »Eugenio Montale
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"For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort." »Joseph Conrad
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"Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control." »Allen Ginsberg
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"History never recorded this phrase: 'The mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy." »Camille Paglia
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"The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined." »George Eliot
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"The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide." »Ben Bova
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"The sea, the sea is everything! Its sovereign mass brings to me atoms of a myriad faraway lands;Its bright smile animates me in the limpid mornings. And when at the end of day my faith has failed me, My heart echoes the sound of its sorrow in the sands! (Mi Retiro)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both." »Eric Hoffer
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"But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings." »John F. Kennedy
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"The historical crusades against Muslim lands, the colonization of Spain by the Muslim Moors and India by the British were all driven by economic interests, despite the advertised reasons that were used to mobilize their armies at the time. In my opinion, the invasion of Iraq was not about spreading democracy or weapons of mass destruction, it was about the oil.
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