"It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin."
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"Sundays kill more people than bombs."
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"We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night."
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"If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British."
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"A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb."
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"My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!"
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"The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs."
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"The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks."
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"The F-bomb. It's everywhere. You hear it all the time. And I honestly don't understand what the appeal is over the word."
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"The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a pressure cooker bomb is a good guy with a slightly larger pressure cooker bomb."
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"A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory."
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"I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system."
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"Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals."
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"The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind."
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"With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows."
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"Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for."
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"I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened."
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"But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit."
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"In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs."
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"Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer."
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