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"My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day."
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"Dedication requires a specific sacrifice and for many Christians this becomes a stumbling block."
"Serve the Lord, do not look for excuses."
"Be faithful anywhere you find yourself."
"I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that."
"Love grows and wanes, but honor, duty, and commitment, those things are constant and stable. They define who you are."
"Commitment is a thing of choice, not a thing of force."
"Love knows nothing of short hauls because it has committed itself for the long haul."
"Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?""Yes, sir.""A crippled man, twenty years older older than you, whom you will have to wait on?""Yes, sir.""Truly, Jane?""Most truly, sir."
"God requires us to give ourselves over fully to serving Him and to do everything to the full."
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"I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view."
"On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego."
"During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes."
"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."
"However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II."
"I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective."
"My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space."
"In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed."
"My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
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