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"The countries outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty also are bound by that obligation [ Article Six of the treaty] according to, at least it's a strong implication of, a 1996 opinion of the International Court of Justice."
"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."
"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."
"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
"It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative."
"One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking"
"We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks."
"Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world."
"I am not going to advocate ... the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride."
"The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded."
"Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp."
"Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also."
"The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast stone brigades during the ice age; they have been torn from the hills, recruited from the mountaintops, and marshaled on the plains and in the valleys; and now the elemental war is over, there they lie waging a gentle but incessant warfare with time and slowly, oh, so slowly, yielding to its attacks!"
"Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power."
"I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best; that we are made strong by what we overcome; that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good; that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly; that power waits upon him who earns it; that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber."
"Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China - also were the original five countries to have nuclear weapons."
"Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians."
"You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict."
"I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows.... glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round."
"The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it."