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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8781e46 | Within twenty-four hours of Franklin Roosevelt's death two men told Harry Truman about the atomic bomb. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 4867e87 | Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| d2ba730 | And most generally and profoundly: "The very fact that knowledge is itself the basis for civilization points directly to openness as the way to overcome the present crisis." | Richard Rhodes | ||
| f453723 | Robert Oppenheimer thus acquired for Los Alamos what Leo Szilard had not been able to organize in Chicago: scientific freedom of speech. The price the new community paid, a social but more profoundly a political price, was a guarded barbed-wire fence around the town and a second guarded barbed-wire fence around the laboratory itself, emphasizing that the scientists and their families were walled off where knowledge of their work was concern.. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| 98dbf15 | Roosevelt had returned from Hyde Park troubled that Felix Frankfurter and Bohr had somehow breached Manhattan Project security, Bush and perhaps Conant had talked to Bohr and the two administrators had submitted to Stimson at his request a more detailed proposal incorporating Bohr's ideas. In doing so they had explicitly recommended that the United States sacrifice some portion of its national sovereignty in exchange for effective internati.. | Richard Rhodes | ||
| c354403 | If she were more perfect, she would be less interesting. | Anne Brontë | ||
| e268548 | It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. | Anne Brontë | ||
| e848ac5 | But I'm looking at life from the opposite end of the telescope from you, and everything that once seemed so grand and impressive has all shrunk down to size. I can see now what could have been, but wasn't, and I don't want you to get to my age and feel the same way. | Graham Masterton | ||
| d291e4a | Katie had visited Belfast many times before, but mostly to the city centre, for meetings with the Crime Operations Department, and she had forgotten how blatant the hostility still was between republicans and loyalists. UFF could almost have stood for Us? Forgive and Forget? Dunboyne | Graham Masterton | ||
| 8ad8a46 | They were probably warning the first person to stay well clear until the bomb squad had determined that there wasn't a second device intended to catch first responders. Next | Graham Masterton | ||
| b9e556a | Like I say, this house is far too big for me anyway, and maybe it'll do my head good to get away from the memories of your Ma. Sometimes I still think that she's upstairs, in bed, and I have to go up just to make sure that she's not.' He paused, and then he said, almost inaudibly, 'She never is. | Graham Masterton | ||
| 8c8da70 | Well, just like the feller said when he showed up at the fancy-dress ball with a rubber johnny on his beezer and the doorman asked him what he'd come as -"fuck nose"." | Graham Masterton | ||
| f62b049 | May trouble neglect you, the angels respect you and heaven accept you.''Conor -! | Graham Masterton | ||
| a046f12 | Well, good luck with that,' said Katie. 'I'd better get off home now. I'm starving. I could eat the lamb of Jesus through the rungs of a chair. | Graham Masterton | ||
| 97ed259 | Iollan was one of the greatest of the Fianna, the ancient warriors who could visit the Invisible Kingdom whenever they wanted to. | Graham Masterton | ||
| 3961423 | dormez bien.' They | Graham Masterton | ||
| 9d99be0 | Katie walked slowly around the excavation, trying to make sense of all the bones that were lying there, jumbled up like pick-a-sticks as if somebody had tossed them up into the air and let them scatter at random. She could make out at least three pelvises, and two breastbones, and innumerable vertebrae. She was used | Graham Masterton | ||
| 77c9606 | awake that she climbed out of bed and went to the window. She pulled the curtains aside, but the Kanes' house was in darkness. She went back to bed, switched on her bedside lamp and picked up the crossword she had been trying to finish before she had grown too sleepy. One of down clues was 'Together, the top and bottom of the world are manic'. The answer was 'bipolar'. *** Next morning, as she came back with Barney from his early-morning wa.. | Graham Masterton | ||
| 3486560 | Mor-Rioghain | Graham Masterton | ||
| 2209cbb | another long think. Then she said, "Can" | Graham Masterton | ||
| 9e64909 | and blown | Graham Masterton | ||
| 0c6016e | Kierowca taksowki byla kobieta. Dotknalem jej ramienia. -No? - zapytala. -Przepraszam, ale chyba bede rzygal. Obrocila sie i obrzucila mnie spojrzeniem. Z jej dolnej wargi zwisal pet. -Panie, do cholery, to nie samolot. Nie zapewniamy torebek. -To co mi pani radzi? - zapytalem, pocac sie (...), samochod podskakiwal i trzasl. -Polykaj pan - oznajmila i skonczyla dyskusje. | Graham Masterton | ||
| 85c0bc3 | She used to think that he was so stocky, and bull-like, but now he felt like a laundry bag filled with old coat hangers. | Graham Masterton | ||
| 962367b | In the hoarsely whispered words of Detective Markey, who was sitting close enough for Katie to be able to hear him, he had the face of a bulldog sucking piss from a stinging nettle. At last, | Graham Masterton | ||
| 7178f80 | He was extremely handsome, in a dark, slightly satanic way. | Graham Masterton | ||
| 0a4b7d4 | Let's just say that I'm sensitive to all things rotten. Rotten movies. Rotten paintings. And, more than anything - rotten people . People who mistreat their children, never take their dogs for a decent walk, and yell at their wives for no reason. | Graham Masterton | ||
| 81cf99d | clarsach, | Graham Masterton | ||
| 84b2fd2 | all under control." "It's all under control, is it? Four good men have been blown to" | Graham Masterton | ||
| ec1404b | almost fanatically, began to see another man, and although she still clung on to Williams for his money, it was quite obvious to him that she didn't love him | Graham Masterton | ||
| 7ce2a97 | The dead are more bloody desperate than we can even guess. | Graham Masterton | ||
| feabe2e | the shed door opened. Immediately the puppies started screaming and | Graham Masterton | ||
| dcc9480 | In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice,' wrote Montaigne; 'we have no tie upon one another, other than the reliability of our word. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 9add6c4 | You may have as many words as you please, - only I can't stay to hear them. | Anne Brontë | ||
| de72c39 | The world pullulates with profoundly unrespectable people, views and actions, at all levels and in all neighbourhoods, and PC's reflex tendency to attack most of those who attack many of them makes matters worse. True discrimination - careful and fair-minded separation of worth from dross - is bundled by PC with all discrimination, and banned; hence the trouble. What began as a movement to rectify relationships has become a minefield of sus.. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| abfcb85 | Implicit in the idea of degeneration from the best form of government, the aristocratic, is Plato's claim that the members of the demos lack the knowledge and virtue of the aristoi, which is what make the latter fit to govern. He thinks that the collapse of the democratic state is inevitable given the supposed opposite characteristics of the polloi or general public: ignorance, self-interest, prejudice, envy, and rivalry. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| d979d81 | For the grace of bearing life's inevitable evils is itself a | good life philosophy | A.C. Grayling | |
| 85827f6 | Without free speech one cannot claim other liberties, or defend them when they are attacked. Without free speech one cannot have a democratic process, which requires the statement and testing of policy proposals and party platforms. Without free speech one cannot have a due process at law, in which one can defend oneself, accuse, collect and examine evidence, make a case or refute one. Without free speech there cannot be genuine education a.. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 0876a59 | Along with enraged responses to Zeppelin air raids, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the use of poison gas in the trenches, these demonisations prompted outrage in the United States and other neutral states at the moral vileness of Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany. Bad things were undoubtedly done, but the propaganda technique of encouraging pro-war sentiment in one's own country by claiming that the enemy commits atrocities is both too tempting t.. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 410024b | Fear If the diver always thought of the shark, he would never lay hands on the pearl. SA'DI | A.C. Grayling | ||
| f468f14 | Racism is on its deathbed - the question is, how costly will racists make the funeral? MARTIN LUTHER KING | A.C. Grayling | ||
| b916c37 | Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| c91580a | One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun. THOMAS FULLER | A.C. Grayling | ||
| a64bb70 | Such melancholy is fitted to the fact that life offers causes for regret, that happiness is not always the point, and that there is enough hardship and struggle to go round, but not enough of the good things; and reflection on these useful insights is a check on thoughtlessness and self-satisfaction - what the Russians expressively call poshlost - which threaten to make one live in banal fashion. So a little depression is good at times, in .. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 699b0ff | Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. LORD BYRON | A.C. Grayling |