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" We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house. "

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" I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. "

" Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. "

Robert M. La Follette

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" In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. "

" Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides. "

" It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. "

" It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. "

" Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more. "

Stephen Hawking

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Goals

" There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. "

" Harry Truman's decision to fire Douglas MacArthur at the height of the Korean War in April 1951 shocked the American political system and astonished the world. Much of the world didn't realize the president had the power to fire a five-star general; much of America didn't realize Truman had the nerve. "

" I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war. "

Richard Burton

Down

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" I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories. "

" Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. "

" Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to attend an all-white college to get the qualifications needed to become an engineer. At every turn, these women were involved in the Second World War, the Cold War, the civil rights movement. "

" Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. "

" Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. "

" In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics. "

" We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict. "

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Color

Black

" Many people find the universe confusing - it's not. "

" I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. "

" If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist. "

" In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. "

" Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. "

" One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War. "

" We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors. "

" The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes. "

" During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically. "

" I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times. "

Marcus Samuelsson

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Tough

" We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level. "

" If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. "