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"If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time."

"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."

"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."
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"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."

"Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers."

"Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority."

"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights."

"For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest."

"What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world."

"Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge."
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