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"In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today."
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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
"Our differences are the real treasures."
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"A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit."
"New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war."
"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."
"It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense."
"The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing."
"The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own."
"Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity."
"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."
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