"The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate."
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"[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000."
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"The thing that I focus on because I don't think it gets enough attention is that among the world's major powers, there is still a nuclear balance of terror - I'm talking about between the United States and Russia, the United States and China."
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"The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy."
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"You cannot use [nuclear weapons] to target civilians; you cannot use them against military targets if they have indiscriminate effects on civilians in addition to the attack on the military target."
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"In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons."
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"In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters."
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"Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work."
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"Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode."
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"In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal."
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"There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be."
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"How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know."
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"Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog."
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"One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests."
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"The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us."
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"Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!"
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"I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the art. I think it would tend to soften the national manners, to teach us the meaning of leisure, to acquaint us with the charms of the open air, to strengthen and foster the tie between the race and the land. No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through."
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"I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree."
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"There are nine countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. There are about 27,000 nuclear weapons total on the planet. The countries that have nuclear weapons deploy them ready for use and have doctrines saying that they would use them in certain circumstances."
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"When I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ´there is no god´."
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