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"A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better."
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"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."

"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."

"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."

"If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation."

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."
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"We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated."

"The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful."

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."

"So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product."

"As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million."
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