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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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