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"There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities."
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"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."

"The price of ignorance is usually a life of frustration and destruction."

"Every blade has two edges, he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."

"I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people."

"The problem with radiation research is that you are constantly battling the biological effects of delayed radiation complications."

"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."

"The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history."
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"As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports."

"Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it."

"It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans."

"Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved."

"There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities."
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