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The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
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As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
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Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.
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In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and…
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Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it…
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Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out…
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Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that…
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When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a…
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Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
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In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of…
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My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
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France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the…
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Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and…
— E. O. Wilson
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a…
— E. M. Forster
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San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.
— Paul Kantner
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In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United…
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As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000…
— Jo Bonner
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When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a…
— Wilfred Burchett
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to…
— Stewart Brand
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In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how…
— Maya Angelou
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Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.
— Jane Jacobs
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We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men…
— Richard P. Feynman
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We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.
— Ken Blackwell
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