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"A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent."
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"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."

"Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine."

"Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction."

"Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction."

"The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium."

"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."

"The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes."

"China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations."

"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor."

"The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us."
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"I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it."

"We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth."

"I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake."

"Our backyard looked like a marketplace. Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds- pitiful relics that seemed never to have had a home. All this under a magnificent blue sky."

"The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria..."

"Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone."
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