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I'm against fashionable thinking.
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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the…
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I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.
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A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to…
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A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or…
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Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
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As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would…
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Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than…
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Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up…
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Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
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For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of…
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For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and…
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also…
— Jacques Derrida
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In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing…
— Herman Kahn
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I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content…
— Alexander Shulgin
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Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience…
— Ariel Gore
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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.
— Martin Amis
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In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.
— Julian Barnes
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I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it.…
— Kenneth Lonergan
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My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or,…
— Louis Begley
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I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I…
— Tom Glazer
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When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not…
— Jupiter Hammon
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
— M H Abrams
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I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in…
— Tony Judt
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