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"Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion."
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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."

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"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."

"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."

"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

"So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you."
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"A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages."

"For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur."

"For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate."

"There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans."

"New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war."

"Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision."

"Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs."

"World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race."
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